Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubtful" States-West Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wyoming, South Dakota, New Jersey, Iowa were his by handsome majorities...
...beaten by Harry H. Schwartz, able legislator but poor campaigner who lost to him in 1930. In Iowa the victim was a stern New Deal hater, Lester Dickinson. In his place was elected mild, polished, praise-seeking Governor Clyde La Verne Herring, flower-lover and ex-Ford dealer. In Michigan, the seat of the late Senator Couzens, overwhelmingly defeated in the primaries by former Governor Wilber M. Brucker, was won by Representative Prentiss March Brown, New Dealer who was a good friend of Republican Couzens...
...Michigan. To help make Michigan safe for Democracy, President Roosevelt brought popular, vote-getting Frank Murphy back from his $18,000 job as Philippine High Commissioner to run for the $5,000 Governorship of Michigan. Month ago the redhaired, freckled, dynamic onetime Mayor of Detroit was so worried about his own chances that he got his Presidential patron to tour the State, sing his praises at every station stop. For a time on election night it looked as though Democrat Murphy's fears had been justified, but when the Detroit returns came in it seemed clear that Republican Frank...
Left. By the late Michigan Senator James Couzens (TIME, Nov. 2) who died intestate; an estimated $30,000,000 to be divided under State law: one-third to Widow Margaret Ann Manning Couzens, two-thirds between his three daughters (Mrs. Madeleine Couzens Yaw, Mrs. Margo Couzens Chewning, Edith Valeria Couzens) and his son Mayor Frank Couzens of Detroit. Federal estate taxes will take some...
Iceman Mason is no novice at motor making. After graduating from the University of Michigan as a business-trained engineer (Class of 1913), he went into Studebaker's manufacturing division, then switched to Dodge. After the War he did a turn in a Manhattan bank, leaving to help Walter P. Chrysler with the metamorphosis of old Maxwell Motor into Chrysler Corp. For four years he was Chrysler's works manager. Then restless Mr. Mason quit the motor industry for the second time, entering Kelvinator at the top after a brief term as president for another refrigerator maker...