Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter sport, basketball. Instructor James A. Naismith was just trying to keep his restless charges from getting bored. The class took to his pastime with such enthusiasm that the Y. M. C. A. began teaching basketball in other cities. By 1893 the game had been brought to Detroit...
What Senator Barkley, in common with most of the rest of the U. S., had pardonably forgotten was the existence of a Catholic priest who after the 1936 Democratic landslide promised to refrain from "all radio activity in the best interests of all the people": Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. Last week Father Coughlin, back on the air again for the last three months, was scheduled to speak on Sunday afternoon. When he had done so, it was apparent that if the U. S. press and the U. S. Congress had forgotten him, there were plenty of radio...
...vote against the bill anyway. Ten thousand went to New York's Robert Wagner, who promptly decided to vote against instead of for the bill, and the presumption was that several of his colleagues would do likewise. At this point, it looked so much as though the Detroit priest, who last fortnight went on record as favoring authoritarian government in the U. S., had administered a ninth-inning defeat to Franklin Roosevelt that the New York World-Telegram ran a streamer headline: REORGANIZATION BILL SEEMS DOOMED...
...enough to weaken Homer Martin's prestige considerably. In Flint, Mich., focal point of the General Motors empire, with 30.000 union members, the Martin forces won their only important victory. Martin and Frankensteen took the stump personally, and their ticket was returned by nearly 2-to-1. But Detroit's bustling West Side local, with another 30,000 members, re-elected Unity Leader Walter Reuther by 4-to-1. Roland J. Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, a vice president of the international union and an intimate Martin-Frankensteen aide, was defeated by a Unity candidate...
Smallpox, of which there have been numerous cases in the West and an outbreak in Detroit (TIME, Feb. 7), has spread to all parts of the U. S. except the Atlantic Coast, has struck nearly three times as many people as in recent years. That a disease for which means of prevention have long been known should again break out may be due to an increasing number of children escaping vaccination, to the failure of adults to be revaccinated...