Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweet Song. In Washington, D.C., when cops arrested George Munson while he was thrashing Lillian May Barrett, he explained: "I wanted to find out if we were still engaged." In Detroit, Romeo St. Amour was taken to jail after shellacking wife Juliet...
...found the early Hitler quite the same sort of unpromising lowbrow crank as the Crimson evidently imagines Gerald Smith to be. Well, the Reverend Smith is not even now an ineffectual angel; he is held by many, and with reason, to have been the main organizer of the wartime Detroit race-riot. This would suggest that there is a nonacademic quality to Smith's oratory, that his propagation of racial and religious hatreds is closely allied to non-verbal political activity, that a speech by Gerald Smith might safely be defined in advance as incitation to violence. But Americans...
...ranged from 15% to 200%; in Denver up to 350%. In San Francisco, an old-age pensioner sharing a single room had his rent boosted from $25 to $40 a month. In Chicago, a third-rate hotel jumped rooms from $7 a week to $17.50. Even the flophouses along Detroit's grimy Skid Row upped dormitory beds from 30? a night...
They were off in the $10,000 La Salle Handicap at Detroit's Fair Grounds. Up in the press box, jolly George Krehbiel raised his big binoculars and began telling the television audience what...
Something He Ate. In Detroit, Sword Swallower Tony Marnio gulped a two-foot length of lighted neon tube, glowed at his appreciative audience, bowed, thereupon went out like a light, was hustled to a hospital for removal of the shattered tube...