Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home in Des Moines. He could afford to rest. His swing through the West had surprised a lot of people, but few could have been more surprised than Henry Wallace. Almost everywhere he had packed the crowds in: 3,000 in Cleveland, 6,000 in Minneapolis, 8,000 in Detroit, a record 25,000 in Los Angeles' Gilmore Stadium. The people who came paid good prices to hear him: from 60? to $2.40 apiece in Chicago, a $3.60 top in Los Angeles...
...Trib still sees silk-hatted Wall Street bankers lurking around every State Street corner, and redcoats behind every red oak tree. (In 1943, its publisher solemnly told a Detroit audience that after World War I he had helped the U.S. General Staff work out plans to repel an invasion from Canada by 300,000 British regulars.) But even when it is up to no good, Colonel McCormick's xenophobic "World's Greatest Newspaper" is one of the last, anachronistic citadels of muscular personal journalism...
...days later, the mystery was cleared up. Kudymenko, Zhigan and Sevastyanov popped up in the line-up of the Kiev Dynamo team, which needed extra strength for a big game with Leningrad. No matter how loudly they squawked, Odessa fans could do no more about it than Detroit fans could when the Tigers sold Hank Greenberg. Local officials explained, "Alas, it's all over. It's out of our hands now." The Kiev Dynamo, like all the Dynamo soccer teams, is sponsored by the Soviet secret police...
Divorced. Anna Dodge Dillman, 70, widow of Automaker Horace E. Dodge; and Hugh Dillman, nightclub operator; after 21 years of marriage; in Detroit...
...Detroit, packed with "Southern white hillbillies, [motor] company thugs, ex-Bundists, and Ku-Kluxers," is "the most explosive town in the Western Hemisphere." Gunther finds words of praise for Arizona's Governor Sidney P. Osborn, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, Ohio's ex-Governor Frank Lausche, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, pours scorn on Old Guard Republicans, Negro-baiters and anti-Semites...