Word: comstock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reclaimed Michigan. Best news of the day to the G. O. P. was the Michigan primary. Recovering from the 1932 Democratic landslide, Republican leaders marshalled nearly three times as many of their partisans to the polls as Democrats did. Defeated for renomination was Governor Comstock, sent to Ann Arbor two years ago largely because as a political "angel" he had financed his party through long lean years of defeat. Instead, Democrats chose for Governor a Detroit attorney named Arthur J. Lacy. For Senator the Democrats picked Frank A. Picard, militant New Dealer and head of the State liquor commission...
...wife) and onetime Columbia government professor. The Commission's research director, George Sylvester Counts, is a professor of education at Columbia's Teachers' College. Its chairman, August C. Krey, teaches history and the history of education at University of Minnesota. Other Commissioners include: Ada Louise Comstock, president of Radcliffe College; Isaiah Bowman, director of American Geographical Society, Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, Columbia historian. One of four who refused to sign the report was University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam. Like the Hoover Committee on Recent Social Trends, whose researches it found useful...
...group of the more conservative members, a group whose only desire in the past has been for the reconstruction of the Liberal Club and the growth of liberal opinion in the University. Grinnell Jones, Jr. '36 Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. '36 Charles R. Cherington '35 William W. Sprague '36 Comstock Glasor '35 Dayton Wood Hull '35 John L. Davidson, Jr. '37 Harvey Dawson...
Before an audience that even the ban by Miss Ada Comstock and the subsequent publicity could hardly rouse to enthusiasm, the H.D.C. put on their spring madhouse and a madhouse it was. Lacking any tangible central theme and leaving the people at the end of the first half of the play with the uncomfortable feeling that they didn't know what it was all about, the drama certainly demanded a bit of courage...
...poor job of an unusually poor play. The acting was spotty, the scenery was dilapidated and the lighting left the players walking off into the shadows for no good reason. Humanity would have been benefited and the H.D.C. could have kept its face if the University had seconded Miss Comstock's ban, if not for her reason. (Name withheld by request...