Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, Sir Oliver addressed a meeting of state officials. Speaking of his countrymen, he said: "We have not acquiesced in our difficulties. We have not sat down under them. We are grappling with them . . . Think of us as busy, lively, controversial, changing and resolutely...
...From Detroit he went on to Des Moines. There he remarked on the largeness of the pears in a basket of fruit, visited Iowa State College, where he gingerly poked a pig. He looked in some astonishment on an "undulating Iowa countryside," which he had expected to be flat, and drank a glass of sherry at a cocktail party of Iowa bigwigs...
Another traveler, Florida's Governor Millard F. Caldwell, who had run into the ambassador in Detroit, volunteered a typical American appraisal. "Everyone will respect him for his earnestness and sincerity," Governor Caldwell said, but he thought Sir Oliver would be a hard man to get to know...
Donald C. Freeman of Leverett House and Detroit, Michigan: Jubilee Cabaret; freshman swimming team; Social Relations Society...
Bricker and Gaus were members of a four-man round-table forum at the General Assembly of the States in Detroit over the weekend. The assembly is a biannual function of the Council of State Governments...