Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, the Rhode Island results were a whack between the eyes for both parties. Stunned by their good fortune, rejoicing Republicans interpreted the outcome according to their hopes. Cried Michigan's Senator Vandenberg: "Commonsense is convalescent at last." Warned House Minority Leader Snell: "It is the handwriting on the wall." Exulted Chicago Publisher Frank Knox: "Thank God, the people of Rhode Island can't be bought!" Bubbled Maine's Senator Hale: "It shows what's coming at the next election." Only discordant Republican voice was that of Ohio's onetime Senator Fess moaning in political...
From handsome Dr. Max Minor Peet of the Universityof Michigan, the Congressmen heard of cutting abdominal nerves which stimulate the kidneys, adrenals, spleen, pancreas, liver, stomach and intestines, of cutting dorsal sympathetic nerves which affect the colon, rectum, bladder and genital organs. Dr. Peet operated thus on 60 patients to relieve their high blood pressure. Results...
...Kirksville, Mo., was neurotic. While police were still looking for Evelyn Smith, Dr. Bauer married Miss Louise Schaffer, the frail, pretty night superintendent of nurses in Kirksville College's hospital. Three hours after their wedding he left her to resume his postgraduate work at the University of Michigan's medical school. From there he wrote Kirksville friends that he was suspicious of his wife, notified Kirksville tradesmen to cancel her charge accounts, told university friends that he was afraid he was going crazy. In turn his bride informed him that an old suitor of hers, a tall, dour...
...Encyclopedia Britannica comes in 24 volumes and costs $126.50; if the smallest New International comes in 14 volumes and costs $95; if Everyman's comes in twelve volumes and costs $30, then how can a Michigan farmer afford a first-rate encyclopedia? The tall, taciturn proprietor of one Michigan farm looked over a fence rail at his neighbors and pondered that question. What the U. S. needed, Dr. Clarke Fisher Ansley decided, was a good one-volume encyclopedia...
Besides Mme Landowska, who teaches her pupils a somewhat hard, dry touch, contemporary harpsichordists include John Challis of Ypsilanti, Mich., Lewis Richards of the University of Michigan, Ralph Kirkpatrick of Leominster, Mass. A good harpsichord today costs anywhere from...