Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team, chosen on the basis of performances during the past two years, were: Ray Billows of Poughkeepsie (runner-up to Goodman in last year's Amateur), Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati (Amateur champion in 1936), Freddy Haas of New Orleans (U. S. intercollegiate champion), Charley Kocsis of Detroit, Reynolds Smith of Dallas, Marvin Ward of Olympia, and Charley Yates of Atlanta. Some had played on Scottish links before and some had not. But all nine, including non-playing Captain Ouimet. tuned up for the international matches by competing-along with 200 others from all over the world-in the 52nd...
...famed Orpheus fountain in Stockholm was finished in 1936 by Carl Emil Andersson Milles, Sweden's greatest living sculptor. In 1931, in his third year as resident sculptor at Detroit's suburban Cranbrook Academy, Sculptor Milles met Alderman Aloe's widow in St. Louis and learned her desire for a group of fountains in Aloe Plaza. In 1936 Mrs. Aloe put up $12,500, the city of St. Louis put up $47,500, and Sculptor Milles was commissioned to do for St. Louis what he had done for Stockholm...
...Jake Powell being exiled for fighting. The Yankees also took the second game 5 to 4. Other scores--NATIONAL: Philadelphia 9, Brooklyn 5; Philadelphia 7, Brooklyn 4; Cincinnati 7, Chicago 3; Chicago 3, Cincinnati 0; Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 4 (17 innings); St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 6. AMERICAN: Detroit 10, St. Louis 9; St. Louis 3, Detroit 0; Washington 9, Philadelphia 4; Philadelphia 9, Washington 1; Cleveland 5, Chicago 2; Cleveland 8, Chicago...
...powder, equivalent to 88,000,000 pounds of fluid skim milk. FSCC has spent $26,000,000 since January buying up surplus commodities to distribute through relief agencies. Milk production is 8% above last year; prices are lower. Fierce milk wars have been going on in New York, Buffalo, Detroit...
...John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee and Mr. Tannahill is a cousin of Mrs. Edsel Ford. Outside this wealthy constellation, the large and scattered group of private collections includes those of gash-mouthed Edward...