Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
...Detroit, Mich...
...studies at University of Michigan (law degree, 1914), Lincoln's Inn, London and Trinity College, Dublin. As a chief assistant U. S. District Attorney (1920-23), his greatest feat was sending two big Army grafters to prison. He served seven years (1923-30) on the bench of Detroit's Recorder's Court, handling criminal cases with the enlightening aid of a psychiatrist and a sociologist, his own innovation. In two terms as Detroit's mayor, three years as Governor-General of the Philippines, and two more as Governor of Michigan, he has had executive experience...
Four weeks ago when the Boston Bruins sold Goalie Tiny (180 Ibs.) Thompson to the Detroit Red Wings, Boston hockey fans moaned into their mufflers. "We had the best goalie in the world," they grumbled, "and Manager Art Ross sells him for $15,000!" Last week the moans turned to cheers. The rookie who had been raised from the Bruins Providence farm into Goalie Thompson's post had brought the Bruins six shutouts in seven games, had made Boston the frosty focus of the hockey world...
...Cleveland estate is the hobby of pudgy, sleepy-eyed Carmi Alderman Thompson, onetime Treasurer of the U. S. (1912-13) and currently president of Fidelity Investment Association. Old Financier Thompson may soon have more time for his mushrooms, for last week SEC asked a Federal judge in Detroit for injunctions whose effect might put Fidelity out of existence "as a fraud and deceit...