Word: arbors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Zeeland, Mich. Gerrit Wyngarden was struck in the eye by a stray bullet while hunting. He went to Ann Arbor for treatment, found he might lose the sight of both eyes. Then he was stricken with appendicitis, underwent an emergency appendectomy. Then, while Gerrit Wyngarden was recovering, his wife was brought to bed of a child, died. Next day his chicken hatchery, sole means of subsistence, burned to the ground...
Late that night burly Ann Arbor policemen shoved their way into five fraternity houses (Phi Delta Theta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Theta Delta Chi), wakened the torpid brothers, searched their rooms for liquor. They found 50 quarts of whiskey, gin, wine, half a case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa...
...sign of ineffectuality the raid of prohibition enforcement agents on University of Michigan fraternity houses is one of the best to date. Routed out of their beds by the government snoopers more than eighty undergraduates, including prominent leaders were haled sleepily to the Ann Arbor police station in the early morning hours. Quarts of seized liquor accompanied the patrol wagon, the students, and the police...
This is the second time within a year that Ann Arbor officials in a desperate attempt to uphold the belief that enforcement is working, have charged, with warrants, into students' rooms. If the mid-western university is like most others, the river is damned for one day and flows for six months...
Baltimore & Ohio (12,000 mi.) would get Reading and Central of New Jersey which would carry B. & O. over tracks of its own into New York. From Pennsylvania-controlled Wabash, the B. & O. would secure the Ann Arbor as an outlet into Michigan. It would retain Western Maryland, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Buffalo & Susquehanna, Lehigh & Hudson. Its possession of Chicago & Alton would take it to Kansas City...