Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passage to Chicago. With them went a dozen other friends and his son, Arthur. At Englewood, a company of politicians boarded the train to converse with a strangely unenthusiastic Al. At the La Salle Street Station, massed battalions of Democracy seethed to glimpse an Al arrayed in black. Up Michigan Boulevard sped a strangely guarded Al-dozens of motorcycle police, five detectives, three machine guns. Columns of people lined the streets, blackened the windows-people who scarcely saw the Al who almost hid in the corner...
...Mesaba Range, where Hibbing was to be built, bearing the first shipment of blood-colored rocks and dust.* Today the Mesaba district produces 63 million tons of iron ore per annum, four-fifths the total consumption of the U. S. In 1892, the iron ranges of Wisconsin and the Michigan peninsula-Gogebic, Florence, Menominee-had been developed for over a decade. They were the first answer to Railroader James J. Hill's gloomy prediction that the world's supply of iron was approaching exhaustion. By 1902, the Minnesota deposits, almost unlimited, were yielding more than the mines, were...
Died. Job A. Edson, 74, president for 23 years (1905-28) of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, onetime (at 13) telegraph operator for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R. Co.; of apoplexy; at Long Beach, Calif...
...bill to get the thing done was actually reported out by the House Census Committee last spring but was, as usual, recommitted by the House to the Committee, i. e. shelved (TIME, May 28). Now, last week, Representative Clarence J. McLeod of Michigan improved the shining hours of his summer vacation by sending letters to all Congressmen begging to have Reapportionment given the right of way when Congress sits in December...
...McLeod's Michigan, needless to say, has more representation coming to it. Since 1910, Michigan's population has grown with its industries, notably motors. California will get three more seats. Other gainers will be as follows: Connecticut, i; New Jersey, i; North Carolina, i; Ohio, 2; Texas, i; Washington, i. The adjustment will involve enlarging the unit of representation rather than swelling the ranks of the already cumbersome House. Instead of one Representative to every 211,877 of population, the latter figure will be considerably increased. This, of course, will take seats away from several States, as follows...