Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan, a vote against godly Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 81, Republican, was by implication a vote for sin. Nevertheless, Michiganders sided against the angels, voted in up-&-coming Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, who had quietly built himself a steam roller to ride...
Godly, Republican Farmer-Governor Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan refused a $112 AAA check for "not raising something-I don't know what...
...Continental Congress; ten signed the Declaration of Independence. Later Penn declined. By 1807 the university had only 17 students. Says Professor Edward Potts Cheyney, Penn's official historian: "While New England Congregationalists frequented Yale, and Unitarians Harvard, and Presbyterians of the middle States came trooping to Princeton and Dickinson, Baptists to Brown, Anglicans to Columbia or William & Mary, Pennsylvania in the proud isolation of her freedom, from religious bias found virtue, as usual, its own somewhat cold reward." But in 1828 a Yale graduate...
Michigan. Drawing like a sump pump, good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson, 81, dredged up more than twice the combined vote of his six Republican opponents. As a warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn't vote for me, because I'm 81 years of age. . . . You can't blame them." Isolationist Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg won by 8-to-1 over a Detroit razor blade salesman named Bowen R. Grover...
...auction off a prizewinning black Angus steer, Michigan's State Fair counted on doddery, dirt-farming Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. At the last moment superstitious Governor Dickinson, who is up for election this fall, begged off. Reason : the last four Governors to auction off prizewinners were subsequently defeated...