Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
...same platform, stood President Mattison Boyd Jones of the Northern Baptist Convention and President William Joseph McGlothlin of the Southern Baptist Convention. With the kindly approval of 24,000 Baptist churches in the South, 8,000 in the North, they had made a joint speaking tour of Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Boston, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Never, all agreed, had the two Baptist sects been so amicable...
Fast trains last week drew apart the members of the Royal Family of Industry, scattered them in such motor cities as Detroit, Toledo. Pontiac, Flint. Leaning back, they agreed that their annual coming-out party, the New York Automobile Show, had been a far greater success than they had expected (TIME...
...overalls and shirt sleeves. Single-handed he is pushing something that looks like a buggy without shafts. A number on the red shed in the central background fixes the scene at No. 56 Bagley Street, now the site of 14-story Michigan Theatre building, then on the fringe of Detroit's residential district, two blocks west of Grand Circus Park. A bronze tablet at the theatre's entrance preserves the record of what happened there. The Fords then lived at 58 Bagley Street and the. shed which "went with the house" was Henry Ford's workshop. In 1893 Governor John...
...Packing Co. (bacon, coffee, candy, chewing gum) last week sold its subsidiary Beech-Nut Co. of Canada, Ltd. to Life Savers, Inc., owned by Drug, Inc. Chief item in the sale was Beech-Nut's plant at Hamilton, Ont. equipped for making gum & candy. Hitz Hotels. In receivership is Detroit's smart, big (1,200 rooms) Book-Cadillac Hotel. Last week, however, a new destiny for the hotel was ordained. Ralph Hitz, managing director of Manhattan's big (2,500 rooms) Hotel New Yorker, said that he and associates had acquired operating control of the Book-Cadillac, would manage...