Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee has just attained to the major league of college football this year, then the Yankees were unheard of before their invasion of Cincinnati and Joe Louis was just another Detroit boy with a bad temper before he pommelled Lou Nova...
...simple wisdom and reproof for lustful maidens, conscience-stricken wives: it is also a civic institution. Nancy's readers gave her $1,400 to reforest 560 acres of land in northern Michigan, gave more to replant them when the young trees were burned over. In 1932, when the Detroit Symphony was going under, Nancy's newspaper family sponsored six concerts, put the orchestra back on dry land...
Nancy Brown at 69 is small, gentle, spry. Every year since 1934 she has held a religious service on Belle Isle (between Detroit and Windsor, Ont.) at sunrise on Easter Morning. At these services Nancy buries herself in the crowd, her face hidden in the fur collar of her coat. Few of her contributors know her real name, and she knows few of theirs...
...when Recession set in, Nancy had collected over $7,000. Then William Edmund Scripps, president of the Detroit News Corporation, decided to take a hand. He pointed out that with $1,000 a month in donations it would still take eight more years to raise enough. "Make them be business-like," he told his domestic columnist. Said Nancy: "They won't be businesslike. It's not that kind of a column." Nevertheless, she asked them to stop-and money still came...
...more difficulty arose when Nancy wrote Detroit's Council for permission to build the tower. Belle Isle is a city park and playground, site of Detroit's Conservatory, scene of its summer Symphony concerts. Council President Edward J. Jefferies Jr. wanted to know who was going to pay a carillonneur's salary in years to come. Nancy explained: her chimes would need no expert, salaried carillonneur. She got her permit...