Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures per month to U. S. women's clubs, with such success that recently he had to decline invitations to deliver 30 per month more. Last week he reassumed his pre-War personality, gave a one-man painter's show in Manhattan. Leon Dabo was born at Detroit, Mich, into a French-Canadian family, spoke "Canuck" French in his youth. Aged 16 he went to Manhattan to study under the late famed John LaFarge, who later sent him to Puvis de Chavannes in France. That artist enrolled him in the Academie Julian, added his own instruction afterwards. Whistler...
Founder Shafer scarcely knew what had happened before he had an organization on his hands (now numbering about 1,000 with additional Lofts in Boston, Syracuse & Detroit). Membership requirement: proof of bonafide pumping, plus a life-membership fee of $5. Some of the members: the late Myron T. Herrick, Will H. Hays (who had to put his weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist...
...refrigerator which adjoins the president's office. For these foods and many others are the stock-in-trade of National Dairy Products Corp., brightest star in the industrial milky way. Thirty-one directors sit on National's board. Among them are Jerome H. Remick of Detroit, longtime head of the famed song publishing company bearing his name ("Smiles;" " 'Til We Meet Again;" "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"); Banker George Franklin Rand of Marine Midland Corp.; Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs & Co., whose trading corporation owns 23,000 National shares; James Lewis Kraft, the cheese...
...John Dodge, a widower, took unto himself a second wife, Mathilda Rausch of Detroit. When two years after his death in 1922 the Dodge Bros, motor interests were sold for $120,000,000, his widow was one of the richest women in the U. S. She took an active part in the disposal of the company, showed business acumen. That same year she married Alfred George Wilson of Detroit. She became a director of Fidelity Bank & Trust Co. (then Fidelity Trust Co.), later was elected to the board of Graham-Paige Motor Corp. She built the Wilson Theatre in Detroit...
Engine. Over Lake Erie flew an amphibian of Transamerican Air Line, bound from Cleveland for Detroit. The engine tore partly loose from its mounting, caught fire. Pilot Otis Beard "sat her down" on the water, put out the fire, signaled to a Coast Guard boat for a tow. His four passengers, too, continued...