Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tribune. On the walls of Publisher Thomason's office (in the old Market Street plant where the defunct Journal used to be published) hang pictures of Col. McCormick, his managing editor Edward S. Beck, his old time circulation wrangler Max Annenberg, now publisher of the Patterson-McCormick tabloid Detroit Mirror. Sentiment? He and McCormick were classmates in the law school of Northwestern University, law partners for many years thereafter. As a Tribune executive he was reputedly the "highest paid man in the newspaper business'-$275,000 a year...
...Rommel and Mahaffey. The New York Yankees, the young Cleveland Indians, and the Washington Senators, a team of oldsters who have done surprisingly well for the last two years, were likely runners-up. Boston Red Sox seemed less able than usual to cope with consistent second-division teams like Detroit and Chicago. Their pitching staff was depleted when Edward ("Big Ed") Morris was fatally stabbed at an Alabama fish-fry the day before he was to leave for training camp...
...containing the papers of an American, turned it over to the U. S. Consul at Amsterdam. The papers proved to be the pilot's license, passport and permit of Parker ("Shorty") Cramer who was lost with Radioman Louis Oliver Pacquette last fall while flying a transatlantic survey from Detroit to Europe, via Greenland and Iceland, for Transamerican Airlines Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). 2) While the consul was scanning the papers, the Icelandic Althing (Parliament) passed a bill giving Transamerican Airlines the right to build a seaplane base and radio station at Reykjavik, and a concession to operate oceanic mail...
...their laying season, domesticated hen ostriches lay one or two eggs a week. In Detroit's zoo one day last week, an ostrich named Queenie deposited two three-pound eggs within 30 minutes. Zoologists marveled, pronounced binovulation a condition exceedingly rare in ostriches. Said Zookeeper John W. Ireland: "I never heard of such a thing...
...Notable exceptions are the few women who play in major U. S. orchestras. Lady harpists preponderate. There are two in Cleveland's orchestra, one each in the big orchestras in Detroit, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Manhattan. . The San Francisco Symphony has three lady violinist?, two lady 'cellists; Minneapolis has a lady violinist; Los Angeles and Cincinnati a lady pianist each: Cleveland a lady viola player. These fortunates get union wages. When the Chicago Woman's Symphony feels pinched, its members play for $5 a week. Leginska and her players gave their services...