Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Players. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, as all baseball fans well know, was once a high-grade pitcher. Many managers last week considered new places for old players. Most remarkable is the case of Mark Koenig, last year shortstop for the Detroit Tigers. This year he will probably be a pitcher. John Watwood, Chicago White Sox left fielder, may shift to first base. Lindstrom, the Giants' third baseman will try the outfield. Rogers Hornsby, new manager of the Chicago Cubs, may transfer from second base to first, moved famed Hack Wilson from centre field to right...
...functions in Brazil, Kaye Don drove Miss England II up the estuary of the Parana River, three miles of which Government launches had dragged for driftwood. On the last of three trips, he drove a mile and back at 103.49 m.p.h., a new record. In Miami, Gar Wood of Detroit, who had set the previous record last fortnight in Miss America IX at 102.256 nautical* m. p. h. commented: "We'll see about...
April 11-19-International aircraft show; at Detroit. Medicine...
...because guns found in Burke's elaborate arsenal at St. Joseph, Mich, were identified as those used in the St. Valentine's day killings. Alias Brook, alias Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, he is wanted in New York for the slaying of Gang King Frankie Uale in 1928, in Detroit for murdering three "Red" McLaughlin hoodlums in 1927, in Columbus City, Ind. for killing a woman. Since his graduation from the Egan Rats of St. Louis, Killer Burke is credited with $1,000,000 worth of robberies from Paterson, N. J. to Los Angeles. The prices on his head totaled...
Experts sprang to the defense of the Rembrandts. Dr. William R. Valentiner, director of the Detroit Museum of Art, who has officially approved hundreds of paintings sold in the U. S., was at work last week on a catalog of Rembrandts owned in the U. S. From Florida he sent a telegram: WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE ENJOYMENT OF ART BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IF THE GREATEST MASTERPIECES ARE EXPOSED TO SUCH ARBITRARY CRITICISM...