Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struck with the honest, sincere appraisal of these backwoods camps. I am 20 years old and have served 14 months in the Conservation Corps "somewhere in the wilderness of central Michigan." I was in a position to judge the truthfulness, the integrity, the faithfulness with which TIME presented the case of these camps. I found nothing lacking. . . . Certainly after my tour of duty I am not Fascist conscious, military minded, nor have I absorbed the so-called lazy qualities falsely attributed to the Army. What I have seen of the U. S. Army, they worked just a little too hard...
...crowd were Governors Lehman of New York, Hoffman of New Jersey, Earle of Pennsylvania, Cross of Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats...
This practice has been adopted by several universities, with notable success at Michigan. It has several advantages. First, for the man who has early decided on a law training, much that is irrelevant in the present requirements for a degree is obviated. Second, it permits of a more thorough legal training, which the complicated nature of modern law increasingly demands; at the same time, the number of years requisite in obtaining the two degrees suffers no increase. Third, it provides for a more unified, coherent and thus more rounded seven years' course than is possible under the present arrangement...
Realization that the golden times may be over spurs educators to get their hands on what they can now. One rich prize for which many have been angling is the $30,000,000 Rackham Fund of Detroit. University of Michigan had the inside track because the late Horace H. Rackham directed his trustees to favor Michigan charity and education. Michigan was worried when the Rackham Trustees went outside the State to bestow $50,000 on the Warm Springs Foundation. But last week these same trustees dutifully endowed the home University with $5,000,000 to build up its graduate school...
...best to ignore it, living modestly, carrying on his practice, shunning publicity. His philanthropic career almost ended in a fit of hysteria when the Detroit Community Fund revealed him as the donor of $20,000. Later, in strictest secrecy, he financed archeological expeditions for the University of Michigan...