Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan fortnight ago voters roundly trounced Republican Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald by electing Democrat Frank Murphy in his stead. In the contest to succeed James Couzens in the U. S. Senate, the voters picked Democratic Representative Prentiss M. Brown. Senator Couzens having died during the campaign, the Republicans had one consolation prize. Before Governor Fitzgerald left office he could bestow an honor and an honorarium on some loyal Republican by appointing him to fill out Senator Couzens' unfinished term. This week Mr. Fitzgerald made his choice. Said he: "The high office of United States Senator is nothing...
...fishing. New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, to Williamstown, Mass, to watch his son Peter and the Williams freshman football team lose 12-to-0 to the Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John...
...Michigan. Fossil seaweeds have been found as old as 1,200,000,000 years. In a quarry between the north and south iron veins of the Menominee Range, a dynamite blast exposed Proterozoic seaweed which Oscar Halvorsen Reinholt, geologist and mining engineer, pronounced 1,500,000,000 years old. "The upper Michigan peninsula," said he, "now takes precedence over the section near Saratoga Springs, N. Y., as the oldest region in which life forms are known to have existed." Harvard's Peabody Museum eagerly sent for samples...
David N. Mills, of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Choate; Gardner C. Quarton, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Exeter; William P. Sockman, of New York City, Hill; Augustus W. Soule Jr., of Brookline, St. Paul's; Charles G. Swain, of Wollaston, Thayer; Charles F. Whiting Jr., of Cambridge, Belmont Hill; and Masao Yatsuhashi, of Brookline, Country Day School of Boston...
...took his undergraduate work at Dartmouth, and received a Ph.D here in 1909, served on the Harvard faculty as an instructor and assistant professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department from 1920-22. He left Harvard in 1923 to organize a school of business administration at Michigan, and later joined the administrative staff of the Rockefeller Institute in New York...