Word: mennen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advanced than hindered by men. It was at the urging of her husband, who was also her law partner in their Detroit firm, that she first ran for the Michigan state legislature in 1946. She lost, but won two years later when she campaigned largely on behalf of G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had joined their law firm and was running successfully for Governor. She served four years, tried for Congress in 1952, but was buried in the Eisenhower landslide...
...moting agricultural growth at home and in underdeveloped countries. An economist long associated with the Rockefeller-backed Agricultural Development Council, Wharton was endorsed for the presidency by a student-faculty screening committee and elected by the trustees over two other nominees, including Michigan's ex-Governor G. Mennen Williams. Ironically, Wharton's main problem at the giant East Lansing campus (40,000 students) may be with black militants, who suspect his Establishment background. A graduate of Harvard, Wharton is a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and the son of a former U.S. Ambassador to Norway...