Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Horace Gallup, punditical pollster of public opinion, last week received at his home in Princeton, N. J. a postcard asking him to choose among the ten leading Presidential candidates. It was from Emil Edward Hurja, the sly, plump ex-newspaperman from Michigan and Alaska who used to dope elections expertly for the Democratic National Committee and now operates his own "political analyst" office in Washington, D. C. for business clients. Mr. Hurja quizzed 149,999 persons besides Dr. Gallup-some in every U. S. county-by postcard and personal interview. Leaders in his poll were Mr. Hurja...
...forms of racial bigotry." This pronouncement, made in Washington by members of the administrative board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, was released last April 22. It was of a policy-making kind which the Catholic press would ordinarily frontpage. Among the few papers which featured it: the Michigan Catholic, St. Paul Wanderer, Buffalo Catholic Union and Times, Pittsburgh Catholic Observer, New York Catholic News...
...became Poet in Residence successively at Amherst, University of Michigan and Harvard. Crowds turned out, as they still do, to hear his lectures and readings of his own poetry. In a creaking, cranky voice as of one grinding his own poetic ax, and with the mannerisms of a Yankee hired man who knows more than he lets on and somewhat despises his boss for knowing less, he dropped hints that poetry was the most important thing in the world. Then he would read from his own poems, as evidence...
...vice president of Manhattan's National Park Bank. After it merged with Chase National, he became first president, then chairman, moving out when the Rockefellers bought control. > To succeed Charles McCain, United Light & Power chose another Yaleman 61-year-old William Gordon Woolfolk, president of Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. President Woolfolk was bounced from Yale for "one last unfortunate week which, as you might say, was rather alcoholic." > Frank E. Mullen, for five years manager of Radio Corp. of America's information department, became vice president in charge of advertising and publicity. > Marvin W. Smith, manager of engineering...
...Michigan at Cambridge...