Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice I have read, among other inaccuracies in TIME, accounts of Detroit's politico-economic situation written by or obtained from persons either deliberately unfriendly to Mayor Frank Murphy, or ignorant of the facts...
...truth. The first and only significant embezzlement was discovered by two young bankers who became suspicious of the sudden wealth of one Alex F. Lewis, a clerk in the welfare department, who through an ingenious fraud obtained $207,000. He fooled not only the welfare administration but the Detroit Yacht Club which admitted him to membership and the Ford Motor Company, which permitted him to buy an interest in a Ford agency with his stolen funds...
...that as a result of the fraud disclosures welfare expenditures in Detroit have been limited to $300,000 a month. This is definitely untrue. By Councilmanic mandate poor relief expenditures (doles) have been limited to $400,000 for July, August and September. When this $1,200,000 has been spent, $5,700,000 will be provided by Common Council for poor relief in the next nine months...
...Detroit itself is ill-informed on the subject, because two of its newspapers deliberately misinform their subscribers and the third paper (Hearst) while making an honest attempt at being fair succeeds only in making itself a little silly by ineptness...
...Detroit, Mich...