Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that every G. O. Partisan in the land was trying to answer it. On the morning after, the first name that occurred to anyone was that of Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, the only Republican Senator to be re-elected on terms even mildly resembling a Party victory. He had carried Michigan and towed many of that State's Republican Representatives to victory with him. His record was not a record of outright opposition to the New Deal but of compromise with it. He had voted against NRA and AAA, but for dollar devaluation, for the Securities Exchange...
...place. A native of Alabama, Arthur Mitchell went to Tuskegee Institute, served as the late great Booker T. Washington's office boy, became a Washington, D. C. lawyer. He married a Negro woman who operates a Government accounting machine. They put their boy through the University of Michigan. The Mitchells moved to Chicago in 1928, there working for the G. O. P. and Herbert Hoover's election. Arthur Mitchell had switched parties by 1932. Campaigning against Representative De Priest on the platform that the New Deal was a boon to blacks and whites alike, he declared: "I would...
...City. Son of an enterprising steel manufacturer, he took over and ably expanded his father's business, retired a rich man in 1924. Growing apace, meantime, was the renown of the books & manuscripts he was carefully assembling. In 1923 he presented them to the University of Michigan (which had graduated him in 1882) and threw in a graceful white building to house them. The collection includes 50,000 documents of the Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister at the end of the American revolution; 25,000 documents and 350 hand-made maps of Sir Henry Clinton comprising the actual...
Stalled for the first half, Minnesota's steamroller started rolling in the second. A homecoming crowd of 59,000 at Minneapolis saw Pug Lund spiral passes that averaged 44 yd., Stan Kostka batter Michigan's line to bits, Julius Alfonse scamper 76 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota 34, Michigan...
...year-old boy was caught by police lugging off two huge bones of a prehistoric monster, to feed to his dog. Recurring showers of bottles from the 64-story Skyride Tower grew so alarming that the elevators were finally stopped. Dancing feet stomped into ruin landscaped lawns. Into Lake Michigan went benches and tables, and when policemen sought to admonish the revelers, they tossed the policemen in, too. All through the night until dawn ambulances screamed through the grounds, carrying more than 100 victims of good-natured rowdyism to hospitals. If the Fair had opened on the morrow, the damage...