Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Senate Commerce Committee started to consider investigating the whole project. Senator Fletcher was doing his best to preserve the canal's good name while Senator Vandenberg of Michigan was producing considerable damaging evidence against...
...unconscious, violated him, killed him, poured acid over his face, buried his body in a culvert on a forest reserve. Wealthy South Side Jews, the Leopold, Loeb and Franks families were friends and neighbors. When the boy's body was found, Loeb, 18, and the University of Michigan's youngest graduate, called at the Franks home to offer condolences, helped police search for clues. Leopold, a brilliant law student at the University of Chicago and at 18 an ornithologist of repute, continued with his bird-study classes. Ten days after the murder the case suddenly broke when...
Last week in London a record was claimed for a recent find in Egypt, 86 pages of Epistles of St. Paul which, written in the 3rd Century, appears to be the oldest New Testament text of any length. Collector Beatty bought 56 pages, the University of Michigan the remainder...
Heeding pleas of motorists that something be done about nails and sharp metal scraps on the highways, the Michigan Highway Department lately worked out a trailer which, hauled behind a truck, sucks up metal by magnetic attraction, feeds it into a hopper. The sweeper costs 35? per mile to operate, covers 42 miles per day. By last week it had accumulated more than a half ton of tire-damaging litter, including a pair of scissors...
Geographical distribution of the new students is wide, with 19 states, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, and two foreign countries represented. Among the states, Massachusetts leads with 13 men, followed by New York with seven, and Michigan, California, and North Carolina, claiming four each...