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...Mennen Williams, governor of Michigan, yesterday called upon the various state governments to take the lead in organizing "an imaginative retooling" of American local government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Urges States to Justify Powers With Better Leadership | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

...Mennen "Soapy" Williams, governor of Michigan, will deliver a Littauer Lecture on "The Role of the States Within the Federal System" today at 3 p.m. in the Littauer Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams to Discuss States' Role in U.S. | 4/11/1957 | See Source »

...GARVIN MENNEN San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...flesh out his committee, Ziffren suggested Adlai Stevenson, Estes Kefauver, Harry Truman, New York Governor Averell Harriman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams. Another nominee: Lyndon Johnson, who already is fending off a clamor for a change in the Senate rules to forestall filibustering (TIME, Dec. 3). Parrying Ziffren's invitation, Johnson tentatively agreed to serve, postponed final decision until he caucused with House Speaker and Fellow Texan Sam Rayburn to assay Ziffren's strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Gadfly from California | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Michigan's bow-tied. New-Dealing Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams won a fifth term after a seemingly easygoing-hut decidedly breathless-campaign against his toughest competition ever: Detroit's capable Republican Mayor Albert E. Cobo, 63. Soapy benefited mightily from Michigan's split-ticket voters was even strong upstate, far from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. machines in the big cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Governors: In & Out | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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