Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speeches. Last week in Detroit, speakers remembered how badly they had been treated in 1898. Governor of Michigan Fred W. Green† said, "Never did an Army leader take the field with such poor equipment and such poor food as America in the days of '98. The same thing would happen if we went to war now. . . ." Major General Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff, protested: "The 1920 National Defense Act is ... developing excellently. ... It is what the title proclaims, an Act designed to procure adequate peacetime military establishment. . . ." Miss Jennie R. Dix, president of the Spanish War Nurses...
...Spanish War lieutenant in the 31st Michigan Infantry...
Among his many old supporters who grieved to see so popular and potent a politician in jail was Chase Salmon Osborn, millionaire and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan, who in 1926 appealed...
...enough to keep one busy. . . . We are all overpaid! I'd like to go back to railroading it; it is the most fascinating business in the world. Senators' vacations are too long! We waste too much time!" So said James Couzens, U. S. Senator from Michigan, interviewed last week during his 55th birthday. One-time freight-car checker, onetime Ford vice president, Senator Couzens is reputed to be the richest member of the U, S. Senate...
...born. U.S. readers, scanning the list, wondered. The six: Leone Krause (dramatic soprano) Chase Baromeo (basso) Olga Kargau (soprano) Elinor Mario (mezzo-soprano) Lucille Meusel (mezzo-soprano) Delia Samoiloff (soprano) It was not until they had read further to the effect that Miss Krause is the daughter of a Michigan clergyman; that Mr. Baromeo is a native of Ann Arbor, a graduate of the University of Michigan; that Miss Kargau went through a Chicago high school; that Miss Mario was trained for opera in San Francisco; that Miss Meusel is the daughter of a Wisconsin traveling salesman-that U.S. readers...