Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Dies recently looked into the automobile sit-down strikes of 1937 in Michigan. The committee and its witnesses lit into C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America as Communist-ridden lawbreakers, into Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy as a weakling official who condoned Communist sit-down tactics...
...this matter straight. Just to show there was no politics in it, Governor Murphy is a Democrat and you are a Democrat.'' "I am not," cried Judge Gadola. "I am a Republican! Until this New Deal coattail parade started, there wasn't a Democratic judge in Michigan...
John Deering, 39, had spent 17 years in jail and hated it. When he was arrested in Hamtramck, Mich., last July as a robbery suspect, Michigan authorities wanted to jail him again. But John Deering (who had shot his way to freedom once before) rather than take a 15-year jail sentence in Michigan confessed to the murder of Oliver R. Meredith Jr. in a robbery at Salt Lake City two months before. Extradited to Utah and tried for first-degree murder, he stolidly maintained that he was a habitual criminal, would be better dead. The judge agreed. Utah...
...Michigan, the Detroit Newspaper Guild set another precedent when it bought space in the arch-Republican Free Press for a political ad. ''REPORTERS KNOW!" clarioned the Guild. "We have mingled with men and women in the breadlines . . . witnessed big taxpayers' vain attempts to shirk. . . . Frank Murphy MUST Be Re-Elected!" On its front page the Free Press testily explained it had taken the Guild's money only because it believes in freedom of the press, opined that most Detroit newspapermen "are not led by the nose to the ballot box by John Lewis...
...were better than we have been all year. Harvard has good, yes, probably a better team right now than Michigan or Ohio State. Harvard would be right up there in the Big Ten fight...