Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author of many novels of the Northwest, including The Flaming Forest, The Country Beyond and A Gentleman of Courage; from blood poisoning, at Curwood Castle, near Owosso, Mich. When 17, he traveled over a thousand miles in a carriage, selling patent medicine; afterwards he studied at the University of Michigan; and then, for seven years worked on the Detroit News-Tribune, as reporter, feature writer, assistant editor and finally editor. He then devoted his time to fiction...
...familiar Ford Model T first appeared (in 1907) has the change of complexion been radical. This time it seemed that a radical change of complexion must come. Last week a photographer waylaid one of the forthcoming Ford models as it whizzed along on a country road test in southeastern Michigan. The blurred pictures revealed a radiator on the general style of the Lincoln; a spring-suspension giving a lower front effect; a hood larger and more streamlined to the body than ever before on a stock Ford. Evidently, too, all four of the wire wheels were braked. But from...
...Thereafter the 15 other states whose delegates to presidential nominating conventions are chosen by direct primary, would either take their cues or have to be notified. The states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio (primaries in April) ; California, Maryland, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon, West Virginia, South Dakota (primaries in May); Florida (primary in June...
...forced upon Filipino politicians, usually obscuring more pressing issues. This would not be so if the U. S. would decide and announce its ultimate purpose in the Philippines. Neglect, indifference, delay are the worst U. S. abuses of the Filipinos.?Professor Ralston Hayden of the University of Michigan...
...that "WE" is put, there is no doubt that it is original material from Colonel Lindbergh's own pen, that he took great pains and a reasonable length of time in writing it. It is an ungarnished autobiography, beginning with the sentence: "I was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902." Many a garrulous autobiographer might well follow Colonel Lindbergh's example of omitting the personal parsley...