Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea appealed to him. As he grew older, he decided that some day he would adopt some children (though he had a wife and two kids of his own). In 1913, with $60,000 he had inherited, he bought 40 acres of rocky land just outside Albion, Mich, and opened the Starr Commonwealth school. The entrance requirements were the reverse of most prep schools': he wanted no boys of good reputation...
...biggest single topic of conversation was so old last week that it hardly got into the headlines at all. That was the price of things. People did talk about prices in astonished and belligerent tones, like a New Yorker reporting that his pocket had been picked in Kalamazoo, Mich. Many swore they had done better on lower wages before...
...ANDERSON Ludington, Mich...
Governor Thomas E. Dewey hustled his family on board a train at Albany for a trip west. Ostensibly, the trip was a vacation to visit his wife's family in Sapulpa, Okla., his mother in Owosso, Mich, and to show his sons some of the grandeur of the West. Actually, as eleven reporters traveling with him knew, it was a chance to confer with dozens of G.O.P. national committeemen, make news at the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, and line up Dewey delegates for the Philadelphia convention next June. Tom Dewey at last...
Married. Lloyd Bowers Taft, 24, third of Senator Robert A. Taft's four sons; and Virginia Stone, 22; in St. Joseph, Mich., while C.I.O. pickets tramped as close to the church as they could get, denouncing father Taft's new labor...