Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constant reader of TIME since its earliest publication, I should like to register a vote on TIME'S June 12 issue, Michigan news, as the ungodliest and goofiest bit of reporting and editing yet to appear. This freshmanlike attempt leads one to believe that you do not know your Michigan onions...
...recent upsurge of anti-union legislation in California, Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan taught John Lewis anything, it was that Labor was not uniformly popular in all sections of the country even with vote-hungry politicians, and that Labor had better bestir itself politically. Leader Lewis now talked of forming "articulate groups of workers to declare themselves on social, political and economic affairs," and belligerently proclaimed: "Progressive Labor is not retreating." On his recommendation, his board proceeded to woo Youth and Farmers, tease the Aged by recommending $60-a-month Federal pensions for single oldsters over 60, $90 a month...
Democrat Frank Murphy of Michigan, which has two other favorite sons (Tom Dewey, Arthur Vandenberg) on the Republican side of the national fence, will tell you sincerely, and so will his friends, that he has no ambition to run for President in 1940. They say nothing about the Vice Presidency...
...months a Senate subcommittee created by a resolution of Michigan's conservative Vandenberg has been studying the relationship of the U. S. wage system to labor disputes, and to national prosperity. This week, in a 351-page report, it gave its findings...
...Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, Michigan, 83% ; voice quality and delivery good, mannerisms poor, poise good. Since 1936 (when his voice was "that of one haranguing a mob") he has "given more attention to his radio appearance, anc today he speaks with vigor and force, but without that displeasing quality he once...