Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ford's 75th Birthday (Sat. 11:30 a. m., NBC-Red) celebrated by 9,000 Detroit school children...
...question for meteorologists and geologists was, what caused this wall of water which, if it had occurred at sea, would have been called a "tidal wave"? Engineers of the U. S. Lake Survey at Detroit advanced several hypotheses. One was that the wave had been kicked up by a high wind or thundersquall in midlake...
...Murphy. Federal law says that Federal executions shall be moved only out of States which have entirely abolished capital punishment. Michigan law does demand death for "high treason." The Chebatoris hanging could not be moved unless the trial judge knew of a way. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle of Detroit replied: "I have neither the power nor the inclination. ... I think it would be unfair to suggest that people of neighboring States are less humane than are the people...
...When hulking, hard-drinking Stephen G. Simmons of what is now Wayne, Mich, was hanged in Detroit in 1830 for beating to death his invalid wife, Hangman Ben Woodworth made such a public spectacle of the affair that public aversion was aroused. Hanging Indians was one thing, hanging whites another. Eight years later, just across the border, Canada hanged a man subsequently proved innocent. Eight years after that, Michigan startled the world by declaring against capital punishment except for traitors...
...about the origin of human speech, the telephone, printing presses. By senior year they had explored many fields that ordinary high-school students seldom know-Columbus slums. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the position of women in Byzantine civilization, the motion picture industry, alchemy. They went to Detroit and New York City to study labor, industry and urban living...