Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago, such avowed foes of the Act as Nebraska's Senator Edward R. Burke, Michigan's Representative Clare Hoffman, the National Association of Manufacturers could get nowhere toward amendment. Since then A. F. of L.'s leadership has plumped for change. Now Clare Hoffman approvingly quotes A. F. of L. to the considerable embarrassment of Bill Green, who strenuously opposes even more drastic alterations proposed by Hoffman, Burke, N. A. M., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. John Lewis' C. I. O. resists any change, on the ground that once the Wagner Act is opened...
...parents and teachers who come to grief when they try to persuade children to do their bidding, science last week had cheering news. Data was gathered by research at University of Michigan on how to talk to moppets and make it stick...
...historically-dubious idea that wars are started for profit has long obsessed a group of Senators including Washington's Homer Bone, North Dakota's Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, Missouri's Bennett Clark, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. "To keep democracy alive, and for other purposes," these gentlemen and 46 cosigners last week outdid themselves by sponsoring a war-tax measure written by little, pinch-faced Senator Bone...
Among Republicans, Thomas Edmund Dewey rose from 27% (before the Hines conviction-see below) to 50%; Michigan's Vandenberg with 15% kept second place, ahead of Ohio's Taft (13%). Herbert Hoover piled up 5%, sped past Alf Landon to capture fourth place...
Rusty Greenhood, only Crimson man who is staying in the mid-west for the National A.A.U. meet this weekend, scored 130 points to take fourth in the three-meter dive. Henham, of Michigan, beat him by three-tenths of a point for third, while second-place Earl Clark was within a point of both...