Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor-league convention was held last fortnight in Milwaukee. Most important news was that Manager Jimmy Dykes of the Chicago White Sox and Manager Mickey Cochrane of the Detroit Tigers had worked a trade: Pitcher Vernon Kennedy, Infielder Tony Piet and Outfielder Dixie Walker of the White Sox for Outfielder Gerald Walker, Third Baseman Marvin Owen and Catcher Mike Tresh of the Tigers. Consensus was that Jimmy Dykes had slipped one over on his old teammate in the biggest deal of the year...
...Towns to be visited in the next three weeks: New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Columbus, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Albany and Montclair...
Pope Pius XI has not yet given U. S. Roman Catholics the new, fifth Cardinal that many of them feel entitled to, but he has consistently created new archdioceses wherever he has felt that Catholicism was flourishing. Having since 1922 made archiepiscopal sees of San Antonio, Los Angeles and Detroit, Piux XI last week did the same for Newark, N. J. and Louisville, Ky., which brings the number of U. S. archbishops...
Gaunt Old Dr. Francis Everett ("The Plan") Townsend told Detroit's Recorder's Court Judge Edward J. Jeffries a joke: "The President went fishing once and forgot his bait. He looked over the side of the boat, cleared his throat, and said: 'My friends-.' A thousand suckers stuck their heads out of the water...
...reasons for the unexplained dismissal which surprised Fordling Cowling and shocked his admirers, but those most frequently mentioned were his pronounced independence and the habit formed by some Ford dealers of referring to the Ford distribution system as the "Cowling System." Adaptable Bill Cowling, once president of Ford-owned Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R., was never paid the heroic salary popularly supposed. Henry Ford's sales manager got $35,000 per year and even the bonus in good years seldom brought it close to six figures...