Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went. Midnight came, 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock. The newshawks in the corridor tried to encourage one another by saying that they thought that the voices in the sickroom were not so loud. Someone even thought he heard laughter. Finally the door opened. Out came Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, his red hair awry, his face haggard. The Department of Labor's conciliator, James Francis Dewey, followed, his plump jowls sagging with fatigue. General Motors' Lawyer-Vice President John Thomas Smith emerged smiling. Newshawks trooped after them to the elevator, up to the presidential...
...penalty of $15,000,000 for its violation. Circuit Judge Paul Victor Gadola's injunction not only ordered sit-downers to evacuate Flint's two Fisher body plants.± but also commanded strikers, leaders and sympathizers to cease all picketing and demonstration around G. M. plants throughout Michigan. With a roar the embattled unionists flung the judge's order back in his round, bespectacled face. Sheriff Thomas Wolcott read it to the sit-downers amid contemptuous silence, departed with a grin. The grim, bearded sit-downers telegraphed to Governor Frank Murphy their determination to die before obeying...
Labor's Generalissimo, John L. Lewis, had already left for the Michigan front when the Presidential call went out. Fortified by the experience of many a bargaining conference, Leader Lewis possessed also a physical advantage when he sat down with other conferees in the office of Governor Murphy's brother George, a judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court. Frank Murphy is a red-headed dynamo, but he had not had a full night's sleep for five weeks. Husky Vice President Knudsen, according to one of his best friends, had "aged ten years...
...Black Legion" tells a tale of terrorism and character degeneration which is gripping in its realism and frightening in its truth. Founded on the Michigan scare of some months age, if relates the story of Frank Taylor (Humphrey Hogart), a typical poorly educated machine shop worker in a large industrial town...
...Hudson River, ice boats yielded to river ice breakers, and ice yachting waned in the East except at such centres as New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, Lakes Hopatcong and Greenwood, the Mystic Lakes in Massachusetts, Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York. In Scandinavian Minnesota,* in Wisconsin and Michigan, ice yachting has flourished. The Northwestern Ice Yachting Association's classifications of ice boats are used nationally and their annual regatta, held last 'week on Lake Pewaukee, just west of Milwaukee, is the nearest thing to national ice boat championships...