Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four boys from Michigan went to the White House-Abrain Abgarian, Jack Loughner, Charles Dybvig, William Chaffee. They were holders of indoor and outdoor records for model airplane flying. Representatives Clancy and McLeod introduced them to President Coolidge, who went with them to the lawn and watched them fly their toys. Two of the planes crashed in a tall poplar tree, stuck there...
...Primaries and state conventions during the week brought the total of delegates actually or theoretically Hooverized to 164. Accretions were Maine's 8, Michigan's 33, Kentucky's 29, 47 in New York and one in Wisconsin. The "actual" standing of other G. O. P. candidates was: Lowden, 100; Curtis, 23; Norris...
...Returns from primaries and state conventions brought the total of Smith-pledged or Smith-instructed delegates to 244. The week's accretions were New York, 86; Maine, 12; Wisconsin, 26; Michigan, 30. Returns from Iowa county conventions indicated that Candidate Smith had beaten Favorite Son Meredith so decisively that he would end by getting all of Iowa's 26 delegates. For other Democratic candidates, the standing of delegates last week was Reed, 36 (Missouri); George, 28 (Georgia). Of Arkansas' 18 delegates, and Louisiana's 20, which are uninstructed, a majority were said to be pro-Smith...
...Watched Senator-designate Arthur Hendrick Vandenbergh of Michigan take his oath and seat...
When John D. Ryan's father migrated from Ireland in 1847, two years after the great "potato" famine there, the belief current abroad was that the U. S. was paved with gold. The father found, of course, no gold covering the Michigan district where he eventually betook himself. But below the surface he found a metal far more useful to the industries of man-copper. He discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper...