Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cook's professional astronomer, Dr. Orren Mohler, 28 (University of Michigan), in connection with a photoelectric Geiger-Miiller counter which records the ultraviolet radiation of distant stars by a series of staccato clicks...
Fortnight ago negotiations to end the great 1937 automobile labor war broke down when the United Automobile Workers failed to evacuate its sit-down strikers from two General Motors plants in Flint (TIME, Jan. 25). The fighting in Michigan having bogged down into trench warfare, the active front shifted last week to Washington. Thither went Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, as he had planned to go anyhow to attend Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural. Thither went General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen, thither Homer Martin, president of the striking union...
...Yorkers, but when it appeared in the newspapers in June 1935 few would have recognized it without a caption. An Owosso, Mich, boy whose grandfather was second cousin to the Admiral, he had grown up in his father's newspaper and print shop, studied at the University of Michigan, with singing lessons on the side. When he migrated to Manhattan in 1923 he was not sure whether he wanted to be a lawyer or a singer. For two years he studied law at Columbia, sang as paid baritone soloist at St. Matthew's & St. Timothy's Church...
...abandoned junior high school. Among the guardsmen called to the colors was one Verl Lahs, a sit-down striker in the Cadillac plant in Detroit. His fellow strikers voted to excuse him from sit-down duty because of their "great respect for law and order and the Michigan National Guard." The Guardsmen spent their time at the high school scrubbing floors and standing by, for the violence had subsided...
...table in Lansing with Governor Murphy. Governor Murphy was sitting politically pretty. Not having intervened to oust the sit-downers, he was still considered their friend. Law & order-minded citizens likewise applauded him for his declaration: "Whatever else may happen, there is going to be law and order in Michigan. The public interest and the public safety are paramount. The public authority in Michigan is stronger than either of the parties in the present controversy. Neither of them by recourse to force or violence will be permitted to add public terror to the existing economic demoralization...