Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week broadcast for the 5,000,000 Poles in the U. S. a faithful, tragic, Polish Christmas, kolendy and all. Parent and producer of this ceremony (from WJR, Detroit) was young Father Edward Majeske, director of the Detroit Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Organists Guild, and famed interpreter of Polish liturgical music. His cast: 24 youths of the Schola Cantorum of the Polish seminary of S. S. Cyril & Methodius. Their best-known kolenda, Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy, in Father Majeske's translation...
Kurt George Wilhelm Ludecke, onetime friend and subordinate of Adolf Hitler, had his application for U. S. citizenship turned down in a Detroit court, pending a future hearing. Reason: The judge had read Ludecke's I Knew Hitler, declared Author Ludecke "a cheap politician . . . dumb as an oyster in the shell . . . anti-everything...
...unable to meet their fixed charges on bonds and preferred stock. Another third is little better off. Only eight Class I roads have bonds outstanding which are gilt-edged enough to be marked with Moody's Aaa (Pennsylvania, Norfolk & Western, Chesapeake & Ohio, Union Pacific, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Virginian, Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac...
...midnight last week in Detroit, in a little room of Chrysler's Institute of Engineering, Messrs. Keller, Murray and U. S. Conciliator Jim Dewey had a final private chat. Outside were the union's President Roland Jay Thomas and Richard Frankensteen (whose tactless tactics helped prolong the strife). Jim Dewey excitedly emerged, announced: "I am happy to announce an agreement...
...Otis & Co. is really interested in buying common stocks of utility companies for investment purposes, they can purchase at book value . . . the stock of the Detroit Edison Co. . . . They can likewise buy the stock of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York ... at approximately 60% of book value...