Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides jack-knives, the White House had an abundance of turkeys (nine of them), ducks, partridges (many a brace), Michigan potatoes (one sack), giant beets (one bushel), South Dakota honey (ten pounds). From Louis Liggett, Bostonian friend of the President, came the millionth rifle manufactured by the Winchester Arms Corp...
...Clarence Cook Little, biologist-president of the University of Michigan, to discuss Federal aid to State education...
...second alteration, amounting to $33,000,000, was the work of Michigan Republicans led by James Campbell McLaughlin. The Ways & Means Committee had recommended reducing from 3% to 1½% the tax on factory sales of Michigan's chief product, automobiles. The Michiganders asked for entire repeal. Farmers'-Friends joined the Michiganders. Democrats swelled this opposition to a 245-to-151 final vote. These changes having been made, Chairman Green of the Ways & Means Committee conferred anxiously with his Republican colleagues at the majority-party floor desk. They asked to have the Revenue Act sent back...
Round and round the asphalt plaza at the Capitol went a glossy new Ford car. At the wheel, beaming at onlookers, sat plump, white-polled James Couzens of Michigan, wealthiest U.S. Senator. The car, No. 35 of the new "A" series, was a gift to Senator Couzen from his friend & onetime business associate, Henry Ford. James Couzens owned & operated No. 35 of Henry Ford's original "T" series...
Grape Juice. United Grape Products Inc. is the name of the corporation formed under Delaware laws last week to take over the properties of seven grape juice and grape products plants in New York, Ohio and Michigan, to buy the complete output of three other factories and the surplus production of a fourth. Their combined production will be more than 1,000,000 cases of grape juice yearly...