Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another newer critic, Columnist Walter Lippmann, wanted to know whether the President would be any better equipped to deal with strikes if he had a revamped Supreme Court. How much, asked Mr. Lippmann, had Mr. Roosevelt done about two serious shipping strikes? And a political critic, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, declaring to the Senate that "there is nothing of greater importance to the nation at the present time," intimated that it was high time the President took action about the Sit-Down epidemic...
...accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
Dwindling Mania. For the great Sit-Down Mania, though dwindling, had not yet exhausted itself. In Michigan, strikes in Reo and Hudson plants were still going strong. At Aurora. Ill., a sit-downer orchestra struck up Here Comes the Bride while a justice of the peace married two strikers. In Detroit, Checker Cab Co., which operates three-fourths of the city's taxis, had a drivers' strike, but many of the company's 600 cabs (which belong mostly in ones and twos to 400 individual capitalists) were operated by their owners...
...first day of the matches, the 100 yard dash will take place with Charlie Hutter and Peter Frick, who tied Johnny Weismuller's record, favored to lead the field. Another close battle is anticipated in the 220 yard breast stroke with Win Jameson facing the Intercollegiate record holder, Michigan's Captain Kasley...
...judiciary. He is one of a number of prominent opponents to the court change who will appear as witnesses against it. Among others who are to speak before the Committee are Dorothy Thompson, noted columnist, and Henry M. Bates, dean of the Law School of the University of Michigan...