Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dissented vigorously and voluminously from the St. Paul decision, is a product of Amherst and the Massachusetts public service commission. Richard V. Taylor, oldest Commissioner, 68, was once (1921) elected Mayor of Mobile, Ala., where he was a railroad official. Commissioner Frank McManamy is a workaday railroader out of Michigan who helped William Gibbs McAdoo run trains during...
Student authors in the University will have an opportunity to compete for cash prizes amounting to $750, as the result of an announcement by the Lawyers Club of the University of Michigan of a prize essay contest for the best manuscripts on the subject, "American Institutions." The essays may be historical, sociological, legal, or otherwise. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate the study of American institutions and to familiarize Americans with them by essays having literary as well as historical merit. This is the initial year of the contest and it will continue as an annual affair until...
...paper without the signature of the author, but with some arbitrary symbol instead, a duplicate of which with the name of the author should be sent to the Lawyers Club. The trustees reserve the right to reject any or all manuscripts, and to publish the winning essays in the Michigan Law Review. Finally; the judges shall be two members of the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan, who are at the time of the contest members of the Board of Governors of the Lawyers Club of the University of Michigan. All inquiries and essays should be submitted to Professor...
...England. Coach Farrell said. All three have done at least 49 seconds in the event and with Martin of Switzerland and Engdohl of Sweden, present a lineup with great possibilities. America however, is fortified with about ten men of nearly equal merit, but probably led by Alderman of Michigan Agrucltural College. Several of the other men who have beaten 49 seconds for the 440 yard distance, he pointed out, are Barbuti of Syracuse, Swope of Darmouth, and Paulson and Ross of Yale. Borah of Southern California, better known as a furlong runner, would rate close to Alderman if he changed...
...poor, Publisher George G. Booth, son-in-law of the late James Edmund Scripps, newspaper owner, added $6,500,000 to the $5,000,000 he and his wife have already given to complete Cranbrook Foundation-"cultural centre" of five schools and a church-on his estate in northern Michigan (Bloomfield Hills). A children's school and a boy's school, already open, will be followed by a school for girls. They will finally prepare for college, or encourage the talented to enter the school of arts and crafts and the academy of art, yet to be founded...