Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan. Alfred Owen Crozier of the National Republican Club contributed his summer home, "Wildwood on the Old Indian Trail," near Harbor Springs. Inducements: 300 acres; a new log cabin of Norway pine. Mr. Crozier said the President had termed his offer "most alluring" but that no definite decision had been made...
...cups have been presented, one in the honor of C. C. Little '10, President of the University of Michigan, and the other in the honor of E. L. Farrell, University track coach, to be called the "Clarence C. Little Trophy" and the "Edward L. Farrell Cup." A "Jaako Mikkola Cup" has been given in the honor of Farrell's assistant mentor by recent graduates of the University...
Many a stalwart educator, journalist, statesman will advise and guide the Virginia venture, among them Governors Byrd of Virginia and Ritchie of Maryland, Presidents Butler of Columbia University and Chase of the University of North Carolina, Senators Couzens of Michigan and Glass of Virginia, Editors Freeman of the Richmond News-Leader and Fishburne of the Roanoke Times; and Viscountess Astor, British M. P., vivacious daughter of the old Virginia aristocracy...
...success of Douglas Fairbanks, Milton Sills, Adolphe Menjon, Fred Thomson, Lefty Flynn, Charles Rogers and many other college men, in motion pictures, has caused numerous college undergraduates to give the screen tests consideration. Despite rain, 143 Yale men reported at New Haven last Saturday and 287 reported at Michigan...
...cover a $20,000,000 loan. The receivership of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway has cost him a million. But his saddest loss was the forced sale in 1923 of his Melody Farm, $5,000,000 estate of forests, fountains, lakes, drives and gardens, near the Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago. Truculently honest, weary of commercial strife, he now spends most of his time rusticating in California. Last week however he was, like another Cincinnatus called from his farm, in Chicago alongside his nephews Philip D. Ill and Lester in their tribulations with Armour Grain...