Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bertha Stott left Detroit, went to Canada, remained there three weeks until a writ was issued for her brother Ernest in Ontario. Last week she returned and went to jail. A few hours later she was in hysterics. She had to be taken to a hospital, where police and nurses guarded her watchfully. Judge Ferguson said he might have her examined by a psychiatrist...
...veneer, speaking "as one soldier to another." the veteran of Château-Thierry and Soissons said: "What I have to say is that there is a little uneasiness in this country about the American Legion. I can't imagine anything more ridiculous than for you to go down to Detroit with a program of relief for the whole country and at the same time hold out a tin cup. If you do that you will be laughed at. And I say that as a man in favor of the Bonus legislation...
Host. Meanwhile. Detroit prepared to receive its visitors, the largest convention of Legionnaires ever held. Three members of the "Little Jewish Navy'' gang were executed in an apartment house for hijacking $110,000 worth of liquor which had been imported to slake the palates of thirsty Legionnaires. One of the deceased, ''Nigger Joe" Leiboutz, was not only a Legion member but belonged to the local committee for the registration of delegates...
...When the Detroit scene was set, 125,000 Legionnaires, their wives and families trouped in. Decked out in gold, blue and maroon uniforms, they filled every hotel room in town, overflowed into Canada across the river. Some had to sleep in parked Pullmans. All over the city were Wartime Salvation Army and Knights of Columbus huts. The society of the 40 & 8, inner sanctum of the Legion, had brought its French freight car, symbol of the organization. Mascot goats, Gila monsters, rattlesnakes, dogs, skunks, burros were displayed everywhere...
...Ireland championship eleven times. In 1926, the Tipperary team visited the U. S., won ten games in a row. All-Ireland champions in 1930, the Tipperary hurling team arrived in the U. S. again last week, began another six-week tour to include Somerville (Mass.), Manhattan, Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco...