Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Russell Rodgers, moving man, was hailed into court by his wife, who charged that he frequently got drunk and beat her. The Court asked: "When do you get the whiskey?" Russell Rodgers replied: "Every day I work. When people move, they take stuff out of the cellar. They get most kind hearted and insist that you have a drink. You do it as a matter of courtesy...
...Long Island section. Said she softly: "The Guild tried to plant in the hearts the spirit of loving service." Close friend of both, and prominent in the convention's activities, was Mrs. Truman Handy Newberry, wife of the onetime Senator-suspect from Michigan and First Lady of Detroit's socialite suburb, Grosse Pointe Farms...
...Home in Detroit since he left Florida last March, Henry Ford last week had much to occupy his mind. His home life is happy. He has a son, four grandchildren: Henry Ford II, 13; Edsel Ford Jr., 11; Josephine Ford, 8; William Clay Ford, 6. He has used his money to surround himself with those things he likes. Yet Depression has not spared him. Ford sales are running about 50% lower than last year. In addition, there is every indication that the great Chevrolet v. Ford battle is more intense than ever with Chevrolet in the lead. There have been...
...last week he knew that the greatest subject in business today is whether or not wages must come down, that many financiers (historically his opponents) are paving the way for such a move. Henry Ford has given no real opinion on the subject lately. Last week, however, two smart Detroit writers for the Wall Street Journal, Philip Hanna and Harold Gronseth, put together what they knew of his policy, wrote it as if coming from a spokesman. They said that Mr. Ford stands firm against any reduction in wages and insists that the wagescale be maintained by firms manufacturing accessories...
John Ballantyne, longtime Detroit banker, was made president of Detroit Bankers Co., holding company for Peoples Wayne County Bank, First National Bank of Detroit, Detroit Trust Co. and eight other institutions...