Word: detroiter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farming country, near the Susquehanna River within a few miles of Shamokin Mountain, it will be the first Federal penal institution in the northeastern quarter of the U. S. Not casually was Lewisburg selected for the honor. Abundant fuel and water supplies, the joint accessibility by many railroads from Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and the eastern seaboard, healthful climate, a long agricultural season for working convicts and the persuasiveness of Senator David Aiken Reed were all factors in the choice. Also, Lewisburg is the seat of the Federal Court in the Middle District...
...Gordon K. Burns of Maplewood, N. J.; De Wolf Schatzel of Findlay, Ohio; Frederick C. Roop of the District of Columbia; Charles H. Cloukey of Lansdowne, Pa.; Walter Wrigley of Haverhill, Mass.; Gordon K. Carter of Charlottesville, Va.; James H. Compton Jr. of Wichita, Kan.; Royal E. Peake of Detroit, Mich...
Derby. Pilot Lee Gehlbach, whose low-wing Command-Aire set the pace throughout most of the All-American Air Derby (TIME, Aug. 4) finished an easy winner at Detroit last week, took the $15,000 first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...
Charles Bowles, who remains Detroit's Mayor at least until the special election in September, called the killing "a terrible thing," braced himself for a campaign of vindication. He abolished his central vice squad in the police department, started a round of speakeasy raids. Meantime his Commissioner of Public Works, John Gillespie, director of earlier Bowles campaigns and co-defendant against most of the charges occasioning the recall, resigned from office...
Derby. Twelve of the original 18 starters in the All-American Air Derby for planes powered by 100-h. p. American Cirrus engines, finished at Los Angeles the first half of a 7,000-mi. round-the-continent race, headed east to complete the circle in Detroit. In the lead was Lee Gehlbach of Little Rock, Ark. flying a low-wing Command-Aire...