Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowing quite whether he had harvested a bumper crop of votes or had merely provided New England with a holiday, President Roosevelt dictated his grief at the death of his rich and radical Senator James Couzens (see p. 53): "The people of Michigan and the nation have lost a leader whose convictions were part of the best that America aspires...
...Party, Royal Oak Party) in 34 States, Nominee Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent one day in Utah, the next in Idaho, the next in Washington, the next in Wyo ming, the next in Nebraska, the next in Iowa, the next in Michigan, the next in Ohio. Greatest third-party vote in recent years was that for the late great Robert Marion La Follette in 1924 when that Wisconsin Senator came within an ace of polling 5,000,000 ballots. Though Unionist Lemke really cannot hope to equal that record, he does...
...Sportswriter Tunis' list of professionals: Alabama, Baylor, Boston College, Bucknell, Carnegie Tech, Colgate, Columbia, Detroit, Duke, Duquesne, Fordham, Georgetown, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana State, Marquette, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Santa Clara, St. Mary's, Southern California, Southern Methodist, Stanford, Syracuse, Temple, Texas Christian, Tulane, Villanova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Washington, Western Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
Died. Senator James Couzens, 64, of Michigan, reputedly richest man in the Senate, who strongly advocated higher income taxes for his kind; of uremic poisoning; in Detroit. A onetime newsboy and coalyard hand who in 1903 invested $2,500 in Ford Motor Co., he became Ford general manager, sold out his interest to Henry Ford in 1915 for some $30,000,000. In 1919 he ran for Mayor of Detroit, warned voters he was not "a good fellow . . . who will do favors for his friends," was elected. Three years later he was in the U. S. Senate. Last September Republican...
...this all--Harvard was the first team to score twice against Princeton since Michigan turned the trick in 1932, and Saturday's score represents the first points the Crimson has tallied against Princeton in 16 years...