Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal's No. i election dopester, worked out with Nominee Roosevelt a 5,000-mile campaign trip to cover as many doubtful states as possible. While they huddled over their maps and charts, red-headed Frank Murphy, High Commissioner to the Philippines and Democratic Nominee for Governor of Michigan, arrived. Not so happy are New Dealers in Michigan since Republican Senator Couzens took a drubbing in the primaries after announcing that he favored four more years of Roosevelt...
...still raining when the Sunflower Special pulled into Chicago next morning. Not to be outdone by the Democratic Nominee, who has lately demonstrated notable indifference to rain, the Republican Nominee hopped into an open car for his drive up Michigan Avenue, got himself thoroughly soaked for the benefit of scattered groups of admirers bunched along...
Like most apparent miracles, football's most dramatic moment of last, week was really no miracle at all. In piling up a record which, with a victory over Michigan this week, will equal Notre Dame's record string of 20 in a row, Minnesota has become famed as a team that does not reach maximum efficiency until the second half of its games. A decade ago Minnesota teams were feared solely for the Norse power supplied to them by the huge muscular Swedes with which they were amply staffed. The current increase in Minnesota's football prestige...
...Franklin Roosevelt's bag. Of the three other Republican Governors, Buck has done little to win Delaware's three electoral votes, Hoffman is probably more of a hindrance than a help to the Republicans in New Jersey and Fitzgerald is engaged in a touch-&-go dogfight for Michigan...
Famed in Chicago is Pianist Moissaye Boguslawski for the muff which he wears in winter to protect his talented fingers from the stiffening cold of Lake Michigan's bitter breezes (see cut). Another stunt of "Bogie" Boguslawski was to play for Chicago's Station WJJD all the piano music of Bach, all the sonatas of Beethoven, in what he called a "musical marathon." Beethoven took nine weeks, Bach twelve. Two years ago Mr. Boguslawski said the music produced by most contemporary composers "gave him the hiccoughs." Fortnight ago this ebullient musician came out as a composer himself...