Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominee Landon, best at small gatherings, had last week the tough assignment of speaking in the relatively unsympathetic industrial towns of Michigan and Ohio. At more than one place there were boos-chiefly from small boys-although the volume of cheers everywhere drowned them out. A few hecklers he handled deftly, but now & then, even in rural regions where he met the warmest welcome, he failed to stir a crowd to the enthusiasm it was ready to give. Then he would abandon his troublesome notes and drop in a remark which always got response: "I guess you folks are down...
Next day Nominee Landon stumped across Michigan with better weather and bigger audiences than he had in chilly Detroit. Here & there small boys booed him. His second day in Michigan ended with bursting bombs, red fire, a cheering crowd of 75,000 welcomers at Grand Rapids. ("Like so many Americans, I have spent a good deal of my life in close contact with Grand Rapids furniture.") There the Nominee spent the night at the home of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Thence he turned homeward across Indiana...
...first half year of 1936-37 Carl D. LaRue of the University of Michigan has been appointed as research fellow in Botany and Charles H. Goodman of Washington University as assistant in Psychology...
Minnesota is usually stronger in the second half of a season as well as of a game. Stimulated by last week's scare, it is now, according to most experts, an even-money bet to get through its fourth successive undefeated season. To do so, after Michigan, Minnesota must beat Purdue, Northwestern, Iowa, Texas and Wisconsin...
...Other major football scores last week: Alabama 7, Mississippi State 0; Army 27, Columbia 16; California 7, Oregon State 0; Fordham 7, Southern Methodist 0; Michigan State 7, Carnegie Tech 0; Navy 35, Virginia 14; Oregon 7, Stanford 7; Pitt 6, Ohio State 0; Purdue 35, Wisconsin 14; Southern California 24, Illinois 6; Yale 7, Penn 0; Holy Cross 7, Dartmouth...