Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph. Mo., cried indignant Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance. Prohibition & Public Morals: "I am not surprised. If you had seen the outfit that gathered in Detroit as I did, you would be surprised that 394 men could be found who would stand up for the Constitution and decency and sobriety. Where did they get them...
...field. A million maintained their American ideals, even in French cities. But some dropped down to another level. This is the crowd that seeks to dominate the Legion and our civilization." The Chicago chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union prayed for "our poor, deluded boys in Detroit. We must pray for them so that God. who works mysterious wonders, may hear. Satan has again cropped out." Henry Leonidas Stevens Jr. of Warsaw, N. C.. newly elected Legion commander, replied: "I have seen fewer drunks at this convention than ever at any other convention."* With...
...Detroit last week, Ralph E. Badger, one of the six executive vice presidents of Union Guardian Trust Co., clarioned: "Calvin Coolidge is the Moses to lead Americans from the present political turmoil that influences the present economic structure." During the past two years, hundreds of people like Banker Badger and scores of small Republican organizations have agitated to "draft Coolidge" back into the Presidency. For once & all, in a carefully copyrighted pronunciamento - "Party Loyalty and The Presidency"-for this week's Saturday Evening Post, badgered Mr. Coolidge said his say. His say: He does not want public office...
Died. Alanson Mellen ("Mellie") Dunham, 78, white-haired fiddler protege of Henry Ford; at Lewiston, Me. Mr. Ford, entranced by Mr. Dunham's rendition of "Turkey in the Straw" & "Boston Fancy," took him to Detroit for one of his old-fashioned parties. A vaudeville tour afterward did not go to his head. Playing on Broadway, he still wore mackinaw, rubber shoes, woolen shirt. In his own district, where there were lots of fiddlers, he was famed for his snowshoes. His proudest boast was that he equipped Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary for snowshoeing to the North Pole...
...showed that since December 1929 the U. S. cost of living has dropped 21.1% by an average weighted to take into account all major items of expenditure in their proportionate amount. For the past year alone food was off 20%, household furnishings 9.6%, clothing 8.1%, rent 5.1%, fuel 4.3%. Detroit showed a 12.7% drop, Kansas City 5.6%, New York 8.5%, Atlanta 8.9%, Birmingham 12.8%, Philadelphia 8.1%, St. Louis 10.2%, Boston 9.8%, Chicago 10.2%, Cleveland 10.9%, San Francisco...