Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life of Mr. Ford and in the Administration...
...occasion had become uncomfortably historic. According to this somewhat jaundiced view, the President's brother-in-law, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, had bungled at a crucial stage in the Administration's Second Recovery Program. By arranging a White House invitation to Henry Ford, moaned these counselors, this onetime Detroit comptroller had also arranged a White House dramatization for the stiffest and most nonresilient member of the Opposition; had, indeed, obliterated the effects of the friendly pronouncement from SECommissioner John Hanes's Sixteen Businessmen...
Last week alumni sat down to dinners in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco., Minneapolis, Detroit, Princeton and New Haven to celebrate the 80th anniversary of their remarkable preparatory school. In Chicago they heard the school highly praised by University of Chicago's hard- to-please President Robert Maynard Hutchins. Little Lake Forest Academy (180 students), in a swank Chicago suburb, is remarkable not for its plant (valued at only $750,000) or ivied tradition (although it is one of the oldest prep schools in the Midwest) but for its long, angular headmaster, John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards. Major reason...
...case fizzled when the judge discovered the Department of Justice trying to arrange a consent decree on the side (TIME, Nov. 22, et seq.). Since then this particular phase of the tripartite dealer investigation has lain dormant. Last week, however, the other two simultaneously came to a climax in Detroit at the annual convention...
BASEBALL--The Red Sox came from behind to tie the score in the seventh inning and then defeated the Detroit Tigers 4 to 3 in the 10th, as Lofty Grove copped his third straight win of the season. Out in St. Louis the Boston Bees were defeated by the Cardinals 3 to 2. Other scores--American: New York 5, St. Louis 1. Philadelphia 7, Chicago 3, Cleveland 10, Washington 9, National: Cincinnati 10, New York 2, Brooklyn 7, Pitisburgh 2, Chicago 5, Philadelphia...