Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga with aircraft on their flat backs. Mine sweepers, oilers, repair, supply and hospital ships, seagoing camp-followers, all bunched together...
...Born: In Detroit. Mich...
Grant's Secretary of the Interior (1875-77). Chandler's dour effigy now stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The Hales inherited a large slice of the Chandler fortune, made in dry goods in Detroit. Scion of two such potent and distinguished families, young "Freddie" Hale was carefully schooled (Lawrenceville, Groton. Harvard) and steered into the Law as a stepping stone to politics. His father's name and fame helped him to get elected to the Maine House of Representatives for one term (1904). In 1916 he was elected to the U. S. Senate where...
...System announced it would no longer sell its time to preachers, would instead put on its own "Church of the Air." Many people believe that this change of policy was caused by the broadcasts of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin from the Shrine of the Little Flower of Jesus near Detroit. Father Coughlin organized his own chain, has since broadcast to a large audience. Last week The Christian Century, while calling Father Coughlin "erratic, illogical, cheaply sensational," expressed alarm at continued attempts to have him excluded from...
...blessing so patently on Brother Theodore's head, it now behooved Theodore's Republican kin to get behind the Hoover candidacy for reelection. The family was scattered. Settled quietly at Oyster Bay was Mrs. Ethel Roosevelt Derby, the President's other daughter. Cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt was serving as Detroit's comptroller. Brother Kermit was running a steamship line in Manhattan. Brother Theodore, adding fresh lustre to the name, was starting out for the other side of the world. Alice remained in Washington, perhaps to try to woo Hoover support from such a vehement anti-Hooverite as her good friend...