Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, through Attorney Robert Moore of Michigan City, Ind., announced David Curtis Stephenson, who recently (TIME, July 18, 25) began throwing verbal and documentary bombs at various Indiana officials from his life-prisoner's cell in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Mr. Stephenson, irate at getting no help in his attempts to escape serving his sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, began his disclosures of Ku Klux Klan rule in Indiana by holding a long conference with Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy of Marion County, Ind. Then he released certain checks to Indianapolis papers-checks...
Grand Jury. Finally Mr. Stephenson himself testified before the Grand Jury now engaged in investigating charges of corrupt politics in Indiana. Taken from Michigan City to Indianapolis under prison guard escort, Mr. Stephenson spent more than five hours before the Grand Jury, smoked cigars with gusto, was then motored back to jail where no cigars are permitted. The jury also heard testimony from Mis? Meade and had previously been given the evidence found in the black boxes. After hearing the Stephenson story the jury refused to adjourn, although the term of criminal court for which they were sitting ended last...
During the week, School and Society (weekly) published parts of a research report from the University of Michigan, which contained suggestive findings for college-entrance authorities to ponder. It was not surprising to learn from this report that students who had done well in high school had done well in college, or to hear that "the bottom 20% [of the group studied] might have been barred from entering college to the profit of all concerned, including themselves." More disquieting was the fact that the descendants of American-born grandparents stood about half as well in their studies as descendants...
Doctors of Evanston, Highland Park, Ravinia and Lake Forest, Illinois communities along Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago, announced last week that they would charge double fees for calls they received after 7 p. m. Their decision excited comment in the Chicago Journal of Commerce, business newspaper...
...design. Of the merit points awarded for keeping to schedule, not having accidents, fuel economy, etc.-he had 2,000 more than any other contestant. The ships had traveled 4,200 miles, from Detroit to New England, down the coast to Baltimore, cross country via Pittsburgh and Cleveland into Michigan again, back south to Dayton, Louisville, Dallas, Tulsa and thence up the continent to Detroit. Henry Ford, watching the pilots jockey their controls to keep even keels in the rain and gale at the finish, said: "This shows the reliability of the airplane, if anything does." Edsel Ford met with...