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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hamtramck (pronounced Ham-tram-mick) is Detroit's tenderloin for foreign immigrants. It got its municipal charter in 1922 and is today Michigan's seventh city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hellzapoppin | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Scrammy & Mick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...original cat that inhabited the old Toronto Stock Exchange was a tabby named Scrammy. From 1929 to 1934 she kittened twice, presaging two mining stock booms. Scrammy disappeared and was replaced a year ago by a tomcat named Mick, who so far has manifested no oracular qualities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...given a free hand in selecting stories and casts, an actor's vanity is sure to lead him astray. Great Guy is vintage Cagney, exhibiting him at all the shoulder-punching and sotto voce wisecracking on which was founded his reputation as the cinema's No. i mick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...fell vacant, Pius XI could handily acquaint himself with names of candidates for that windswept Canadian post. But instead of selecting some seasoned churchman the Pope picked a simple priest whose years-36-made him the world's youngest archbishop. The priest was Rev. James Charles McGuigan (pronounced Mick-gwiggan). At 40, Archbishop McGuigan is still younger than the 22 U. S. archbishops, the 13 Canadian archbishops. Last week Pius XI once more jumped this plump-faced, pince-nezzed prelate over innumerable heads, appointed him to the long-vacant archdiocese of Toronto, second largest (165,000 Catholics) English-speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Youngest Archbishop | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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