Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union, did not want one. The seven Negro wet nurses who sat down for 10? per oz. in Chicago (see cut p. 12) had never heard of John L. Lewis, replied to questioners: "Y'all must mean Joe Louis." In Ionia, demanding back pay, members of the Michigan National Guard who had policed Flint during the General Motors Sit-Down, planted themselves on their armory steps, refused to budge until their captain handed them each a $5 bill from the troop's athletic fund. When his 40 employes sat down, President Louis N. Kapp of Chicago...
That the harassed Governor well realized he was becoming the Kerensky of the Sit-Down appeared when, to a 20-man Committee on Law & Order which he had summoned to consider Michigan's labor troubles, he declared: "When the authority of governmental agencies is continually flouted or defied, confidence in government is impaired, and outraged citizens prepare to take the law into their own hands; democratic rule is endangered, and the way is prepared for the rule of mobs or dictators; worst of all, labor movements and organizations are discredited, faith in liberal democratic government is permanently impaired...
Forty-five miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan, Zion, Ill. was founded in 1901 as a theocratic community, along with the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, by famed, robust Dr. John Alexander Dowie. Two years ago Zion's General Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who believes the world is flat and lives...
Adopted. By Mrs. William Teaham, sister of Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, onetime U. S. High Commissioner to the Philippine Commonwealth; a daughter; in Detroit. Name: Mary (after the Governor's deceased mother) Aurora (after the wife of Philippine President Manuel Quezon...
...must pay his traveling expenses), does not object to his work at Jackson Memorial. This renewed security enabled Dr. Little to marry a Phi Beta Kappa and Master of Arts who had been an enthusiastic laboratory assistant to him at Maine and a loyal supervisor of women students at Michigan. Mrs. Little No. 2 still takes an intense extramural interest in the mice at Bar Harbor, besides managing the modest house near the Bar Harbor water front in which they live with their children: Richard Warren, 5, and Laura Revere...