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Word: michigan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale submerged Brown Wednesday. The Bruins who broke the Crimson winning streak bowed 51 to 24. Outstanding Eli times: a 2:58 medley, a 2:17.7 furlong, a 52.8 century, and of course 123.6 points for Danny Endweiss, Yale's persistently perfect plunger. The New Haven team today meets Michigan at Ann Arbor and is likely to return to Connecticut Monday a bunch of beaten Bulldogs . . . . Princeton and Navy battle it out at Annapolis tonight in the first league meet for both teams. Better pick Tigers over Goats...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: SWIMMERS TO FACE WEAK PENN TONIGHT | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

Jackson is on the secretarial staff of the Quaker organization which fed 2,000,000 children in Germany after the War, and now is carrying on rescue work in Spain. The Friends also maintain work camps for college graduates and undergraduates in Flint, Michigan, the Tennessee Valley, Ponncraft, Pennsylvania, and on the delta of the Mississippi River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elmore Jackson Will Speak Tonight for Brooks House On Many Timely Subjects | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

...setting up a special division in the Department of Justice to do a new job-protect civil liberties. He said that protecting the rights of a "protesting and insecure" people was a matter close to his heart. > Frank D. Fitzgerald, Mr. Murphy's successor as Governor of Michigan, last week asked his legislature to outlaw sit-down strikes, of which his predecessor had plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Mr. Murphy's Heart | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Born 51 years ago on the right side of the railroad tracks in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a plain, theatre-loving girl with the hair of a Biblical heroine, Edna Ferber got most of her first-hand experience during the six years she spent on Wisconsin newspapers. Since she was 23, she has lived most of the time in hotels with her mother, has kept a clocklike schedule of work-walk-read, has held aloof from close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Big? | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...best" Republican Presidential nominee in 1940 would be Racket Buster Tom Dewey, picked by 12.2% of all adult citizens; next, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg or New York City's New Dealing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, each liked by 11.5%-choices from a list of eight possibilities among whom 38% of the voters declined to choose; not included in the list were such recent Republican celebrities as Ohio's Senator Taft and Governor Bricker, Massachusetts' Governor Saltonstall, Minnesota's Governor Stassen, Pennsylvania's Governor James. (FORTUNE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ex-Symbol | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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