Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture, clipped by Reader Wetzel from the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), was taken by Detroit's Daily Mirror (gumchewers' sheet-let owned by the Tribune's publishers). It showed a round-shouldered, straw-hatted young man with a cigaret hanging from his mouth smirking at Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Gold, interviewing them about their young daughter Vivian and their nephew Harry Lore who had just been murdered and burned with another young couple by three fiends (one a big Negro) in Ypsilanti, Mich. (TIME...
...Detroit Senator James Couzens, onetime Ford partner, offered to contribute $1,000,000 to the municipal relief fund provided the Mayor's Committee collected $9,000,000 from other private sources. Visiting his Iron Mountain, Mich, factory, Henry Ford laid down a new rule: "Next year every man with a family who is employed at the plant will be required to have a garden of sufficient size to supply his family with part of its winter vegetables. Those who do not comply with the rule will be discharged...
Word came that Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), eccentric fisticuffer who was imprisoned six years ago for killing a woman, would be paroled from San Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary in December 1932. Ford Motor Co. of Detroit agreed to be responsible for him for the next six years, will give...
...revenue estimated at more than $10,000 per week, the desire to avoid "re sponsibility ... of allotting time on a commercial basis to different religions and different preachers." But another reason was imputed to Columbia last week by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Detroit, whose weekly talk over a 16-station hook-up was a Columbia religious feature last year. Father Coughlin several years ago began to be heard over the radio on time bought with money given him by worshippers at his Royal Oak. Mich, shrine to Ste. Therese, the Little Flower...
...Broadcasting System by a few bigots whose minority organization figures to bulldoze the people of America and who now hope to tamper with free speech? . . . The fact still remains that they will not accept my money or my contract. . . ." Father Coughlin announced that he would continue to broadcast from Detroit over an independent hookup, thus far comprising eleven stations...