Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the best endeavors of a small group of tough, skillful, highly-paid young men, the city of Boston has never been persuaded to take professional football very seriously. Last year in Detroit, where some 20,000 people were willing to pay up to $3.30 every week out of sheer delight in professional football, the Detroit Lions finished third among the four teams in the National League's Western Division. Meanwhile, in Boston, even when George Preston Marshall's Redskins dramatically won the championship of the Eastern Division, Bostonians remained apathetic. This year disgusted Mr. Marshall pulled...
Married. Howard Carrington Kresge, son of chain-store Merchant Sebastian Spering Kresge (5-10-25? stores); to Anna May Walker, of Detroit...
...cities which occasionally celebrate the memories of their pioneers, not many dedicate a day every year to a clergyman, and only one can devote ceremonies to a Roman Catholic priest who was a Congressman. To Detroit, last week brought Gabriel Richard Day, the lyoth anniversary of the birth of a Catholic who helped build the city. Under the chairmanship of Catholic Archbishop Edward Mooney, Michigan's Catholic Governor Frank Murphy and Dr. Joseph Anderson Vance of Detroit's First Presbyterian Church, the day was celebrated with high mass, a parade, a banquet, a speech by onetime Governor Chase...
Gabriel Richard, a priest of the teaching Sulpician Order, left his native France during the revolution, was sent to Illinois as a missionary, finally settled in Detroit in 1798. Arriving two years after the U. S. had annexed the Michigan territory, Father Richard was a leader of the village of less than 1,000 a year before its first merchant arrived. The priest brought Michigan its first piano, its first organ (whose pipes Indians stole, returned when they suspected the Great Spirit was angry), its first printing press on which he got out the territory's first newspaper...
...once held it would be cheaper to abandon Pittsburgh than try to make it handsome, arrived in Detroit, told Detroiters: "Take your own city, for example. Architecturally, it is only slightly worse than any other American city...