Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
...Union Theological Seminary. Calling himself a "tamed cynic," he is still known as one who aims to shock the complacent, to kinetize the nation's youth with his own high-powered enthusiasm. Son of a Missouri pastor, he was ordained in the Evangelical Church in 1915, held a Detroit pastorate until 1928. He is an editor of The World Tomorrow, a popular, dynamic orator. In his introduction to the Commission's report he says: "No matter how the Christian ethic is defined it remains true that a wide abyss yawns between it and the facts and assumptions of our contemporary...
...last July 23, Gerald E. ("Jerry") Buckley, radio announcer, sat in the lobby of the La Salle Hotel in Detroit. He had just finished broadcasting the returns of the referendum which recalled Mayor Charles Bowles from office (TiME, Aug. 4). Jerry Buckley's political broadcasts had made him a marked man in the city. One of Mayor Bowles's severest critics, he had vehemently advocated recall. His life had been threatened. As he sat in the hotel lobby, three men came up and shot him eleven times. Thousands went to his funeral. For weeks feeling ran high...
While Clevelanders headed by Senator Robert Johns Bulkley were paying high prices to import Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, Detroit last week followed up an experiment. Detroit four years ago had no local opera. The idea of one originated with Thaddeus Wronski (Ziembinski), a Polish basso who had studied with famed Edouard De Reszke. He came to the U. S. to sing with the Boston Opera Company in 1911, and ended by giving vocal lessons in Detroit...
...Detroit has presented routine operas so successfully that Pittsburgh, Columbus, Buffalo, Dayton and New Orleans have become interested in its formula. Committees from each of these cities were scheduled to meet in Detroit at the end of the two-week season, to discuss the plan of a National Civic Opera Company. Principals and scenery could be passed on from place to place, each city providing its own orchestra and enthusiastic amateur chorus...