Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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when he became president of the University of Maine (1922), to Ann Arbor, Mich, when he became president of the University of Michigan (1925), to Bar Harbor, where he became director of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in 1929. At Bar Harbor, in a small building whose solid brick walls exclude stray mice, he produces 150,000 mice a year, sells 50,000 to other scientific institutions for research, anatomizes 25,000 to analyze their inherited characteristics, especially their susceptibility to cancer...
...mice were his particular solace when he was president of the University of Michigan. After their initial enthusiasm for the youngest university president of his time, the regents of the University heckled him for his liberal views on education and student behavior, and for his refusal to let Michigan politicians dispose of University money. Disappointed, he resigned after four years. Almost immediately he divorced his wife, daughter of a Boston architect, on grounds of cruelty and technical desertion. He gave her and their two sons and daughter every dollar he owned (about...
...Harvard Law Review policy to include treatises by leading men in the different fields of law, the March number, which was in the mail yesterday, contains articles by Francis H. Bohlen, professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Lewis M. Simes of the University of Michigan Law School...
...Minnesota's first. Conference basketball championship in 18 years as compensation for the unexpected failure of its football team to go through the year undefeated. For Purdue, Big Ten Champions for the past three years, the victory meant an approximate quadruple tie with Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan, at the top of the Conference standing, a good chance to equal a classic Conference record by winning its fourth basketball championship in a row. The deadlock, in the tightest Big Ten basketball season in years, did not last long. Two nights later, Illinois, which had played one more game...
...Michigan's Democratic Governor Frank Murphy, New Hampshire's Republican Governor Francis P. Murphy telephoned: "We Murphys ought to get together. It's a great race." Thereupon each agreed to vacation in the other's State this summer. Chided at a North Carolina Democratic Club dinner for kissing Cinemactress Jean Harlow (TIME, Feb. 15), North Carolina's convivial Senator Robert Rice Reynolds declared: "It didn't compare with a North Carolina kiss...