Word: michell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biographer, Michel Vaucaire is more concerned with presenting an attractive outline of a life than with painting the portrait of a man who was endowed with something far greater than a mere wander-lust. He had an all compelling spirit for exploration, a zeal for lifting the veil of a subtle mystery of his time, the secret of Equatorial Africa. His later journeys in the form of the several trips to the far reaches of Scandinavia where he collected material for "The Land of the Midnight Sun" and the journey to "Russia in 1903 where he died should...
...long ago the Supreme Court of Nebraska was asked to rule on an injunction against the Minneapolis law firm of Davis & Michel. The court upheld the injunction because "agents of these attorneys were traveling in the State [Nebraska] soliciting employment . . . haunting the homes of the injured and bringing great discredit to the legitimate practice...
There might have been an end of the case of Davis & Michel but for the fact that Partner Thomas ("Tom") Davis was a stanch political friend of blind Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota's lone Republican Senator. (Senator-Dentist Henrik Shipstead is Farmer-Labor.) Lawyer Davis it was who argued and won Senator Schall's contest for his Senate seat in 1924. Last autumn eloquent "Tom" Davis, while supporting Farmer-Labor candidates otherwise, supported Republican Senator Schall for reelection. Mr. Schall won-and promptly, as he had publicly promised to do, recommended "Tom" Davis' partner, Ernest A. Michel...
...been cited for ambulance-chasing to become a Federal judge. But the Hoover Administration does not relish such strange things and Attorney General Mitchell, a well-informed member of the Minnesota bar, took strong exception to Senator Schall's proposal. Not even when Senator Schall obtained for Lawyer Michel the endorsement of all the Minnesota Republicans in Congress, did Attorney General Mitchell relent. Senator Schall declared he would have no other man. So last week the Attorney General, backed by his President, let the case go before the public on its merits...
...west, decorate their dining hall. "We have no money," said Prof. Pijoan when Orozco arrived, "at present only $500." Artist Orozco glowered through his glasses. "Never mind about that," he said. "Have you got a wall?" When Artist Orozco returned to New York he left behind a huge ogival Michel-angelican fresco, 25 x 35 ft. representing a giant Prometheus bearing the fire of truth, in pulsating Mexican color. Wrote Critic Arthur Millier of the Los Angeles Times: "The wall has been energized by the genius of Orozco until it lives as probably no wall in the United States today...