Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beef Trust. In 1928, two big men, Frank McHale and Bowman ("Bo") Elder journeyed to the American Legion convention in San Antonio. (McHale weighs 290 Ibs., Elder 310 Ibs.) Frank McHale was a Logansport lawyer who had played mighty football for Michigan (where his scrawny little brother in Sigma Chi, Frank Murphy, hero-worshipped him), and Bo Elder was the Legion's national treasurer. To these two it was important that they get the handsome, prematurely white-haired young dean of the University of Indiana Law School elected national commander of the Legion. They did so by shrewdly lining...
...from TIME to ridicule any godly man. TIME reports the news, goofy or not, to the best of its ability. If anybody is kidding Michigan, it is not TIME...
COMMENTING ON YOUR UNJUST, GOOFIEST, UNGODLIEST ARTICLE I EVER READ . . . CRITICIZING OUR BELOVED GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN, MAY I SUGGEST YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN A LARGE CLEAR MIRROR AND ASK THE QUESTION, WHO AM I WHO DARES TO OPENLY RIDICULE A GODFEARING, PRAYING MAN ? ONE OF YOUR SUBSCRIBERS...
...great proportion of the rank & file in both A. F. of L. and C. I. O., the war in U. S. Labor is almost as remote as the one in China. On the Pacific Coast, in Michigan, Iowa, Texas, in many and many a local labor federation, C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unionists still work together for their common aims while their testy big shots snarl in the headlines. Last week this harmony had reached such proportions as to demand the attention of A. F. of L.'s national spokesman...
Archery is another lawn sport that is garnering devotees every year. Reason for its increasing popularity among brawny athletes who heretofore called it "sissy": the nationwide renaissance of bow-&-arrow hunting and fishing. Several States (notably Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, Oregon) have set aside preserves exclusively for bow-&-arrow hunters. A hunting bow is usually 5 ft. 4 in. long, has a 45 to 75-lb. pull, costs from $12 to $40. Prize Fighter Max Schmeling keeps in condition with a bow & arrow...