Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koopmann '22, Ph.D. '26, now assistant professor of Mathematics at Columbia, will return for the school year as Lecturer on Mathematics. In Psychology, Harvard will have another distinguished visitor in the person of Dr. Heinz Werner, of the University of Hamburg, last year a Lecturer at the University of Michigan. Dr. Werner's special field of research has been in various aspects of the psychology of the senses and of speech. His courses this year will cover the "Psychology of Personality," "Developmental Psychology," and "Social Psychology...
Part of the reason for that defeat was that Michigan's New Dealers were not allowed to vote in both Democratic and Republican primaries. No less than 270,000 of them voted on Democratic ballots to nominate Detroit's onetime Mayor, popular Frank Murphy, High Commissioner to the Philippines to run against Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald who was renominated by the Republicans...
Besides the shock of having Senator Couzens badly beaten for trying to cross party lines and espouse the cause of Franklin Roosevelt, New Dealers had another in the Democratic primary for Senator. Representative Prentiss M. Brown of St. Ignace in upper Michigan, while not well-known throughout the State, was expected to win handily. Opposed by Louis B. Ward, Father Coughlin's onetime Washington lobbyist, Representative Brown polled only 124,000 votes, about 4,000 more than the Coughlinite...
Considering that Wilber Brucker had polled 315,000 votes on a strictly anti-New Deal platform, the Michigan trend against the Roosevelt Administration looked so strong to the Detroit Free Press that it published an editorial making fun of all straw votes and polls which indicated that the State was politically nip & tuck, announced that Dr. Daniel Starch's survey which had been appearing in its columns would be discontinued...
...Producer Irving Thalberg was buried last week and who has a contract to put Mary Pickford away when the time comes, advertises his cemetery with neon signs. expensive advertising brochures. Last week one of his colleagues. Judge William Heston of Detroit, boasted that, with no expensive advertising expenditures, his Michigan Memorial Park ''has received more publicity week after week than any other Detroit institution with the exception of the Detroit Tigers." Since Judge Heston built a loud organ in his cemetery, ''anyone driving within a radius of four or five miles of our Park hears this...