Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening late in the week he called in Secretaries Stimson, Mellon and Lamont. Out of that meeting came sudden decision Saturday morning: President Hoover would accept the Legion's invitation, make a flying trip to Detroit...
President Hoover had plenty of business to keep him busy in Washington and on the Rapidan last week. He had already declined an invitation to speak at the American Legion's Detroit convention on the same platform with two men- Newton Diehl Baker and Theodore Roosevelt. The first might be his Democratic opponent in the 1932 presidential race, the second, his running mate. But as the week wore on the national atmosphere became increasingly charged with anxiety. What if the Legion should go on record for immediate payment of the Bonus in full? There were ample indications that...
...Rapidan camp he motored to Martinsburg, W. Va., boarded a special train. Only his immediate staff was with him. So anxious was the President to avoid being caught up and delayed by Legion ceremonies that he had the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. slow up the train as it neared Detroit. With hardly a moment to spare, he arrived shortly after 11 a. m., drove immediately to Olympia Arena through yowling crowds, stepped up on the rostrum and with many a decisive shake of his square head gravely told the American Legion what he expected of it. Excerpts...
Since David Stott, founder of Stott Milling Co.. died in 1916 his seven children have fought privately (with fists) and publicly (with suits) over the management of the ten-million-dollar estate he left them. Detroit's Judge Homer Ferguson, before whom many of these suits have been tried, once said: "David Stott was able to pass on to his heirs his physical assets but not his business ability or his ability to get along with others...
...orchestra leader a name which immediately suggests a street car conductor and gives occasion to all sorts of cheap jokes. I was going to take up with you this question and see if we could not call ourselves 'musical directors' instead of 'conductors.' Detroit would follow suit and pretty soon all the other orchestras would fall in line, I am sure...