Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having boomed at last, Candidate Hoover prepared openly to boom again and again, at primaries in New Hampshire, New Jersey, Michigan, California, Oregon...
...female troupe. Among the males youth assumed a predominance shocking to spry ancients. In the first ten Tilden, Francis T. Hunter, No. 2, and Manuel Alonso, one-time Spanish subject, No. 4, were the only veterans. Third place went to George M. Lott, Jr., Michigan undergraduate, the highest ranking ever bestowed upon the middle west. Notables conspicuous by absence from the lists owing to insufficient tennis activity in 1927 were William Johnston, for a dozen years in the first six; R. Norris Williams, potent defender of many a Davis Cup; Elizabeth Ryan, second woman in 1926, and Mrs. Marion Zinderstein...
...degree, be came Research Associate of the Cancer Commission, Assistant Dean of Harvard, Assistant Director of the Carnegie Institute's Station for Experimental Evolution at Washington, Captain in aviation, Presi dent of the University of Maine. At 37, a university president for the second time, he shocked Michigan conservatives by publicly advocating birth control, became Director of the American Birth Control League, President of the International Neo-Malthusian League. In spare moments he surprises mice and guinea pigs, studying their heredities and acquired characteristics. He is Clarence Cook Little, President of the University of Michigan since 1925. One expects...
...name will be "The Alumni Uni-versity of Michigan...
...conversion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway into the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad became a fact last week upon the grudging consent of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Eleven thousand miles of track between Lake Michigan and the Pacific Coast, rolling stock, terminals and other property representing total investments of three quarters of a billion dollars changed hands...