Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honorable Mention was awarded the Harvard Flying Club in the competition for the Loeing Trophy at the National Intercollegiate Flying Conference held at Washington during the Spring Vacation. The University of Michigan won the Trophy, given annually to the best organized, most efficient college flying club...
Though he is making no overt campaign for the Presidency, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in recent weeks has managed to keep himself in the Congressional spotlight with his subtle attacks on the New Deal. Fortnight ago this Michigan Republican finally succeeded in beating efforts to appropriate money for the Florida ship canal (TIME, March 30). Last week he popped up with a modest resolution asking AAA to report the names of all farmers who received more than $10,000 a year in benefit payments...
...Senate, Florida's Fletcher proposed an amendment to appropriate $12,000,000 to carry on the Florida canal's construction. The House had refused funds for this project, as had the Senate Appropriations Committee. But to Senator Fletcher it was a matter of political life & death. Michigan's Senator Vandenberg, who alone has vigorously opposed the canal, promptly took the floor, recapitulated the arguments against it: The Army's Board of Rivers & Harbors Engineers, which always passes on such projects, had refused its approval. Secretary Ickes' Public Works Engineers had also turned it down. Steamship...
Cheer. Meantime U. S. business has peppered the Press with items of good cheer. Cleveland machinery makers are three months behind on their orders. February burlap consumption rose 1,000,000 yd. to 61,000,000. Manhattan hotel rentals increased 11% over a year ago. Michigan and Wisconsin iron mines returned to five-day weeks in anticipation of the most active year since 1930. Mergers, deals and expansion plans have again become regular news (see p. 80). J. P. Morgan & Co. restored all Depression salary cuts...
Only double winner in the meet, Frank Downey, another Freshman, won in both the 145 and 155-pound classes. Seymour Rubin, former Michigan matman now in Law School, had no trouble in pinning all his opponents before winning the 135-pound class from Rowland Skinner 1G.B...