Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit Correspondent Daily Worker Detroit, Mich...
...platform at the commencement exercises of Jesuit University of Detroit last week a grizzled oldster nervously adjusted his hood. As the name Adam Denhardt was called, he stepped up to become a Master of Arts. What made Master of Arts Denhardt remarkable was not his age (64) but the fact that so far as could be determined he is the first public school janitor in the U. S. to earn a graduate degree...
...Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius XI had turned from the confused course of Europe to consider the state of his Church in the U. S. Last week he commanded that a new, 17th archdiocese be established in Detroit. To it he assigned the 600,000-odd Catholics of that diocese, the 148,000 of Grand Rapids-both dioceses having been in the Province of Cincinnati-and some 87,000 of Marquette, heretofore part of the province of Milwaukee. Thus the Detroit archdiocese becomes the fifth largest in the U. S. Within it the Pope set up a new diocese, Lansing, 93rd...
...rigid disciplinarian who will take no back talk from any Father Coughlin. Indeed, observers felt that, though the Church had successfully liquidated the "Coughlin affair" of last autumn (TIME, Aug. 17 .et seq.) by giving the radio priest plenty of rope, it was putting a strong man in Detroit especially to prevent any repetition of Coughlinism. Archbishop Mooney is modest, good-natured, affable in dealing with churchmen of other faiths. In Rochester he drives his own automobile, plays golf in the 80s, stays away from parties. Catholic eulogizers speak of his "short, concise sermons," but Rochesterites long ago be came...
...both nation and airlines, such expansions have almost always been forbidden. Sample case was the rejection two months ago of Transcontinental & Western Air's application to inaugurate useful service between Albuquerque and San Francisco (TIME, March 22). Last week American Airlines was similarly forbidden to inaugurate service between Detroit and Cincinnati and between Detroit and Indianapolis via Fort Wayne. The Air Mail Act prohibits a new service which might compete with an established one, even if the public's best interests might thus be served...