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Grand Rapids Spectator
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112105019985 |
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The Grand Rapids Spectator
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Grand Rapids (Mich.) |
ISBN | : CHI:105240232 |
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Grand Rapids
Author | : Norma Lewis |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738552003 |
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William Haldane opened a cabinet shop in 1836, 14 years before Grand Rapids incorporated. Other furniture companies followed: Berkey and Gay, Widdicomb, Sligh, Hekman, and Phoenix were among those taking advantage of the Grand River for transportation and power, the area's abundant hardwood supply, and a growing immigrant labor pool. The furniture soon attracted national attention. In 1876, the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition proved conclusively that a river town in Michigan had indeed earned the title "Furniture City." Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower all worked at Grand Rapids-made desks. Fifteen manufacturers joined forces to build 1,000 Handley Page bombers during World War I. The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on September 2, 1945, at a table made in Grand Rapids. Despite fires, floods, strikes, depressions, and wars, Grand Rapids led the industry until the 1950s and 1960s, when the factories began moving to North Carolina. Today the area, along with nearby Holland and Zeeland, dominates the office furniture industry.
Lost Restaurants of Grand Rapids
Author | : Norma Lewis |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 9781467118873 |
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Grand Rapids restaurants have served up meals and memories since the city's earliest days. At Bentham's, one of the first downtown restaurants, customers without money to eat could trade an animal pelt for supper. John Sebaitis trained his German shepherd, Spooky, to serve beer to the patrons at his tavern. And a seventeen-year-old Gerald R. Ford worked part time as a server and dish washer at Bill's Place. Join Norma Lewis as she explores the history of Grand Rapids most beloved eateries and the stories behind them. Book jacket.
The Education of Gerald Ford
Author | : Hendrik Booraem V |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Grand Rapids (Mich.) |
ISBN | : 9780802869432 |
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GERALD R. FORD (1913-2006), the thirty-eighth president of the United States, grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and by all accounts modeled exemplary behavior. In this biography Hendrik Booraem carefully examines that image and the reputation that Ford earned during his early years, telling about Ford's life up until his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1935. Booraem uses in-depth research of numerous written sources — plus interviews with some twenty people who personally knew Ford — to show how Jerry Ford excelled at academics and athletics, forging his way through challenges, family difficulties, economic setbacks, and more on his way to a remarkable political career. Booraem's historical portrait offers fascinating insight into the early years of this president who sought to heal the nation at a very low point in its history.
Drugs Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy The Cartel Haiti and Central America
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 862 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Cartels |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3611936 |
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Murder Mayhem in Grand Rapids
Author | : Tobin T. Buhk |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781625855510 |
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While the River City is known for its history of furniture making, it also has a sinister side. Jennie Flood was a widow with a get-rich scheme that involved a shotgun and an insurance application. Reverend Ferris went undercover in his war against the city's purveyors of vice. The police rounded up the usual suspects in an attempt to solve the infamous 1921 bank heist that led to the slaying of two detectives. And the death of a teenager exposed "Aunty" Smith and her dangerous side business conducted in the shadows. Author Tobin T. Buhk delves into the colorful characters of Grand Rapids' past and the heinous crimes they committed.
African Americans in the Furniture City
Author | : Randal Maurice Jelks |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780252073472 |
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African Americans in the Furniture City is unique not only in terms of its subject, but also for its framing of the African American struggle for survival, civil rights, and community inside a discussion of the larger white community. Examining the African-American community of Grand Rapids, Michigan between 1850 and 1954, Randal Maurice Jelks uncovers the ways in which its members faced urbanization, responded to structural racism, developed in terms of occupations, and shaped their communal identities. Focusing on the intersection of African Americans' nineteenth-century cultural values and the changing social and political conditions in the first half of the twentieth century, Jelks pays particularly close attention to the religious community's influence during their struggle toward a respectable social identity and fair treatment under the law. He explores how these competing values defined the community's politics as it struggled to expand its freedoms and change its status as a subjugated racial minority.