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Sunday, June 20th, was hot. Detroit, sprawling across the flat Michigan prairie, baked in the nearly vertical sun. In the workers' camps on the fringe of the city, trailers and tents held the heat close and unbreathable. In the crowded flats and overflowing houses along Tireman and Epworth Boulevard in the Negro district, the heat pressed down like the sweaty hand of John Henry...
...Tireman Frank A. Seiberling groused about "a good volume of business but poor profit," blamed "the savagery of competition...
...Tireman Harvey Firestone: "Business is good all over the country. But is it going to keep on? Are we fundamentally sound? I don't know. I can't subscribe to some of the principles being put into effect...
...Tireman Harvey Firestone arrived to announce that trade would be improved "by putting the Golden Rule into effect in business dealings." ¶ The President appointed Henry Frank Holthusen-, onetime Latvian and Estonian consul in the U. S., an accomplished amateur magician, to be U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. The nomination was purely honorary, because the Senate is confirming no Hoover appointments. ¶ Mayor Munroe Stiner of Larchmont, N. Y. (pop. 5,282) called to philosophize: "This is a bad year for Mayors, Mr. President...
...toastmaster. President Hoover spoke pleasantly, briefly. Mr. Ford made appropriate remarks. From a radio loudspeaker came the voice of Scientist Albert Einstein speaking from Berlin. Inventor Edison acknowledged the unheard compliments. Other famed guests at the Dearborn celebration: Airplane Inventor Wright, Ambassador Dawes, Steelman Schwab, Oilman Rockefeller Jr., Tireman Firestone, Cineman Hays, Secretary of War Good. Railmen Crowley (New York Central). Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Loree (Delaware & Hudson), Willard (Baltimore & Ohio). Worldwide were the refractions of the Light Jubilee and Hero Edison's glory. In European and South American countries were held illumination displays, banquets, public lectures, exhibitions...