Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tyrus R. Cobb, Detroit baseball manager: "In the columns of able Journalist Clinton W. Gilbert, I noticed, recently, my name, coupled with that of Fielding Harris Yost, famed Michigan football coach. Commenting upon our oratorical support of Republican Congressman Robert H. Clancy, former Democratic Congressman, Mr. Gilbert graciously admitted that our advocacy helped defeat the sartorially notable Congressman John B. Sosnowski in Detroit's greatest Polish district. He wrote: 'Mr. Cobb commanded many votes among the masses. . . . Mr. Yost reached the intellectuals. His appeal was to the highbrows who follow the highbrow sport of football...
...definitely concluded that the decay of the teeth is specific infection, just as specific as tuberculosis or typhoid fever. Cleaning the teeth will not prevent decay, but will lessen the possibility of it. Decay is accentuated chiefly by the excessive eating of sugar," said Professor Russell W. Bunting of Michigan University before the same meeting...
...drunken and lascivious party-"I am the counterpart of Napoleon, the master mind of all the world. Drink her down." He was dealing with a man who had embodied in his person most of the political power of Indiana, and who was then serving a life sentence in Michigan City Prison for the rape and murder of a girl. He was dealing with D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana...
...Stevens Point?" It is all the same. Everywhere she is at home. She holds the keys to numberless cities. There will be 70 concerts in all, nine in Wisconsin, then to Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, Washington, D. C., Maryland, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Virginia, Massachusetts, Missouri, a few performances at the Metropolitan sandwiched in. No entourage, not even a maid; just Schumann Heink grinning a great wide grin to show she is at home...
Senator James Couzens of Michigan: "My 1,000-acre, $100,000 Wabeek Farms near Orchard Lake, Mich., have always shown a deficit. Whether this is because I, frankly, am 'no farmer' or because U. S. farming is fundamentally unprofitable, I do not know. To decide this point, I turned over Wabeek Farms last week for a five-year term, rent and tax free, to Mark N. Williamson, Michigan 'dirt' farmer, and his brother, Frank H., bookish graduate of Michigan State College and post-graduate of the University of Minnesota. Frank Williamson's statement that...