Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit had some 2,500 population when, on May 5, 1831, John P. Sheldon turned from a creaking hand press the first copy of The Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer. First campaign of the paper was to agitate for Michigan's admittance to the Union. But its career of influence really began after the Civil War when the Free Press (a violent anti-Slavery paper) was edited by William E. Quinby. In the 44 years of his control, Editor Quinby developed the late Charles B. Lewis, whose humor made famous the nom de plume "M. Quad." Poet Guest...
...Detroit. The boys who deliver the Detroit Free Press to the doors of subscribers grunted and staggered under their loads last Sunday. The paper?largest ever published in Detroit?included 114 pages of rotogravure in addition to the usual sections, all for the glory of the Free Press's 100th anniversary.* The Centennial Edition, edited by Malcolm W. Bingay who conducts the paper's daily "Good Morning" column, reviewed the history of the paper, of Detroit and of mankind for the past hundred years. Crowning item was a rotogravure page with a large photograph of Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest...
...latter it boasts an exceptionally able women's editor?Mary Humphrey. (Herald Tribune has Mrs. William Brown Meloney.) Some of the Free Press' following may be accounted for by its Chicago Tribune comic features. This situation may be affected by the Tribune's recent acquisition of the Macfadden tabloid Detroit Daily (TIME, April...
...Chicago. The Detroit Free Press was already 50 years old when, in a four story building in Chicago's Washington Street, James W. Scott and William D. Eaton founded the Chicago Herald. But the Hearst Herald & Examiner celebrated its Golden Anniversary last week with ten times the Free Press's fanfare. The celebration happily coincided with an All Chicago Jubilee to celebrate the city's political "new era." At times it was difficult to discern where the Herald & Examiner's demonstration stopped and the city's jubilee began; the result was a pleasing impression that all of Chicago was agog...
...them to care for their money. Then Antioch sends them out into business. If after two weeks' trial it suits them, they must remain in the job a year. Many a big firm takes in Antioch students-Macy's, Marshall Field, Swift, Dennison Manufacturing Co., International Harvester, Detroit Edison, Cadillac, Ford, National City Bank, General Electric, Westinghouse, as well as local firms in Springfield and Dayton, Ohio. Though it is too soon to point to any nation famed Antioch graduates, Antioch finds its alumni on the whole sticking to the trades they have chosen, eminent in the firms...