Word: mich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every schoolboy knows that Grand Rapids, Mich., is the center of the furniture trade in the U. S. Few even of the élite know that Grand Rapids is also the center of the vanishing cognate art of woodcarving. In the Ryerson Public Library the Woodcarvers' Association of Grand Rapids holds an annual exhibition, filled with the zeal of the medieval craftsmen. There are only about 1,000 hand-carvers in America, all told, and 157 of them are in Grand Rapids, though at one time they numbered there 375. The artists to whom the hand furniture industry gives...
...Henry Ford to a reporter at Escanaba, Mich., when told that a magazine writer had stated plainly that Mr. Ford wished to become President...
Died. Alex Y. Malcolmson, 59, original partner of Henry Ford, at Ann Arbor, Mich., after a long illness. He advanced $7,000 in 1902 to found the Ford Motor...
Clarence Hackney of Atlantic City, highly stimulated by that northern air, finished five strokes ahead of Tom Kerrigan of Mount Vernon, N. Y., runner-up last year to Al Watrous of Radford, Mich, (who did not compete this year...
Senator La Follette, radical Republican from Wisconsin, reached Washington after several weeks of rest at Battle Creek, Mich., and asserted: "The issues (of the next political campaign) will be domestic, and the greatest of these issues will be whether the people of the U. S. are going to take their government into their own hands...