Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously absent from the attending Senators was Idaho's Isolationist Borah. Absent from the crowded diplomatic gallery were the representatives of Germany, Italy, Japan. Conspicuously present on the floor was a captain of the willful opposition, Michigan's Vandenberg, who never turned his eyes from Franklin Roosevelt...
...Upper Michigan copper and iron mines increased their work week from three to five days...
...examples of how the great debate crossed party lines. To lead the group on the floor came Missouri's Bennett Clark, still remembering how his father, Speaker Champ Clark, fought and distrusted another World War President; Wisconsin's La Follette, North Dakota's Nye and Frazier,. Michigan's Vandenberg, Idaho's Clark, West Virginia's Holt, Washington's Bone, North Carolina's Reynolds, California's historic Isolationist Hiram Johnson...
...frankly question," said Michigan's Republican Senator Vandenberg, "whether we can become an arsenal for one belligerent without being the target for the other. I doubt if it is possible to be half in and half out of this...
...forbid Holy Writ in their schools. In others, Gideon Bibling faces restrictions, constitutional or otherwise, against the teaching of religion in schools, or Roman Catholic opposition to Bible teaching by persons other than priests. Proceeding cautiously, Gideons have thus far completely Bibled Minnesota schools, are Bibling great guns in Michigan and Ohio...