Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objectionable." The editorials themselves are not on hand but from the subjects given it is possible to deduce that they contained quite a bit of truth--truth that hurt some people's sensibilities. One of them criticizes the conduct of the American Legion members in their recent convention at Detroit, another disagreed with the dean of students for certain statements he had made in regard to student government, while a third attacks professors for slightly revising and reprinting regularly used text-books...
...final judgment three winning clubs were selected by the committee, who named Harvard, first, New York University, second, and the University of Detroit, third. The Harvard club received especial commendations due to the fact that it was the second consecutive year that it has won the prize...
Rivalry between the two South American teams entered in this year's Open Polo Championship was a shade more than friendly. The Santa Paula Team, which won the Pacific Coast Open in 1930, arrived first, played at Chicago and Detroit this summer. The Anglo-Argentine Hurlingham team got to Westbury, N. Y. just in time to steal some of Santa Paula's thunder. If they played brilliantly in the Open, their accomplishments might have affected the enthusiasm with which U. S. buyers would bid for the spare-limbed, light-footed, cattle-trained ponies Santa Paula had brought with...
...fast Lockheed-Altair with which he has been publicizing The Crusaders, anti-Prohibition organization (TIME, July 27) Pilot James Goodwin Hall took off last week, with Banker Peter J. Brady as passenger, for the American Legion convention in Detroit, from New York's Floyd Bennett Airport, pet project of Banker Brady as chairman of Mayor James John Walker's Committee on Aviation. In a fog over Staten Island, the plane lost flying speed, crashed through a rooftop. Banker Brady was killed. A woman, owner of the house, was burned to death by a shower of blazing gasoline...
...from 1928. Room sales were down 17% and restaurant sales down 21%. The room rate was averaging 8%, under last year while the August average rate of occupancy was 54% of capacity against 60%,. In comparing last month with August 1928, Horwath & Horwath, hotel accountants, found that Detroit has suffered the most with a 40% drop, while Cleveland, a big convention city, has suffered the least with a 21% drop...