Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Yankees. For two straight years both New York nines have wound up facing each other in the World Series. For the good of baseball everyone is hoping that the 1938 season may see a change. In the American League the return of the fabulous "Schoolboy" Rowe may put Detroit on top, or Cleveland's lightning thrower Bob Feller may have enough to give his team the verdict. With the news that the one and only Dizzy Dean has been traded to the already powerful Chicago Cubs, it looks as if the New York Giants were through. In any case...
Last week Detroit honored Dr. Naismith, now 76, with a banquet at which the original 1893 players, who 32 years ago organized into teams representing Adams "Y" and the Detroit Athletic Club, stuffed themselves with chicken. Afterwards the two teams, refereed by Inventor Naismith, played basketball as it was when baskets were peach baskets. Shoving and tackling under the original catch-as-catch-can rules, the hearty players (the oldest was 61, the youngest 53) battled for all they were worth. When the game was over the score was 2-to-2. Unanimously the players decided to postpone the overtime...
Where not to go now is obviously the industrial East, hardest hit section of the U. S. Because of the slump in automobiles, trade in the Detroit area was off 26% in January from January 1937. New England trade was down 21% as its rambling textile mills operated on a 3-day week. Glass, steel and auto-part mills were listless in northern Ohio. Northern Illinois trade shrank as Chicago unemployment grew. In Manhattan trade volume plumped 19% with cinemansions and department stores feeling the pessimism of Wall Street...
...with these results last week: 1) Wisconsin's Congressman Gardner R. Withrow, directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate automobile dealer-manufacturer relations; 2) FTC acquiesced to the N. A. D. A. petition for a conference to establish fair trade practice rules, chose April 26 as the day, Detroit as the place. On the agenda, among other things, said FTC, are "various forms of misrepresentation, including misleading illustrations; use of fictitious prices and terms of sale; false invoicing; coercion; commercial bribery; finance charge 'packing,' and price discrimination...
More successful in the second half of this job, Author Josephson has dusted off dozens of half-forgotten heroes: fast-thinking James G. Elaine of Maine; sardonic Roscoe Conkling; crippled Oliver Morton of Indiana, who ran his organization "as the country schoolmaster ran his school"; portly Zachariah Chandler of Detroit, who wanted to "raise a wall of fire" between the U. S. and Great Britain, and who advised Republican wives not to sleep with Democratic husbands...