Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last summer a Michigan commission searched for the rest of the lost bodies. With the greatest difficulty 86 were found; eleven were left in France. Russian peasants were hostile, had to be bribed to reveal each grave. One town the Soviet Government, cooperating with the U. S., threatened to plow up in toto unless its inhabitants gave up the U. S. dead. In another case a Russian woman had nursed, fallen in love with and then buried a wounded U. S. officer. First she tried to misguide the searchers from the grave. When they found it by an ikon...
...young Bush began to dream of his great terminal scheme. In 1902 he founded Bush Terminal, Inc., and began to build six small warehouses and a pier. When the big railroads ignored his tiny terminal, he called it to their attention by buying many a carload of hay in Michigan and sending it to himself via Bush Terminal. To impress on steamship lines the existence of his terminal, he hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal...
...more paternalism and increased floor space. After all Harvard would have been rather silly in the eyes of the world to turn down Mr. Edward F. Harkness' preferred eleven millions-even though he tied up the gift with the requirement that it must be used for student-faculty "houses." Michigan Daily...
...complete schedule for next year is as follows: October 4, Vermont; 11, Springfield; 18, Army; 25, Dartmouth; November 1, William and Mary; 8, Michigan; 15, Holy Cross; 22, Yale...
...Clarence Cook Little '10, former president of the University of Maine and the University of Michigan, prominent educator who has been director of the American Birth Control League since 1925, will speak tonight at the Liberal Club at 7 o'clock on the subject of "Birth Control". Students and officers of the University who wish to attend this meeting are requested to send their names and addresses to the secretary of the Liberal Club at 66 Winthrop Street in advance...