Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served to symbolize as dramatically as possible the conciliatory feelings toward U. S. Business which the President expressed in his Fireside Chat last fortnight. It also served to launch the U. S. press on a guessing game. Best guess as to why Gracie Hall Roosevelt-a onetime Comptroller of Detroit, who now spends most of his time in New York-had given the invitation was that the President considered it more tactful to invite Mr. Ford through an emissary than to summon him directly. Having deduced this much-despite rumors that Hall Roosevelt had given the invitation...
...Washington the Senators defeated the Red Sox 5 to 2. Other scores--NATIONAL: New York 7 Philadelphia 3, (first game), New York 11, Philadelphia 6 (second game); Pittsburgh 6, Chicago 5; St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 0. AMERICAN: New York 9, Philadelphia 2; Chicago 6, Cleveland 3; St. Louis 7, Detroit...
Last week the Detroit press discovered a child prodigy. Youngest of a Detroit musician's three children, wide-eyed, curly-haired George Washington Lovett, 4½, has an uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also...
Last year, NBC's orchestral scouts, seeking talent to build the 94-man NBC Symphony, snooped around the concert halls of several U. S. cities, succeeded in luring key men from the Detroit Symphony and other Midwest orchestras. Symphonic managers all over the U. S. shivered in their boots, fearing that NBC's juicy contracts might tempt their most prized performers. Manager Alfred Reginald Allen of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra tried to placate the NBC menace by offering the loan of his players ''at any time," including his two world-famous instrumentalists-suave Oboist Marcel Tabuteau...
...Boston Bees came back from yesterday's shellacking and beat the New York Giants 6-4, while the Red Sox rested. Other scores National: Chicago 10, Cincinnati 4; Philadelphia 6, Brooklyn 5; Pittsburgh 9, St. Louis 4. American: Washington 3, Philadelphia 9; Cleveland 9, St. Louis 0; Chicago 5, Detroit...