Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prayers in Michigan...
...feel sorry to observe what seems a straining at an effort to be flippant, not to say smart-alecky, in referring to our good Governor as senile (TIME, Nov. 13). We Michigan folks who know Governor Dickinson think highly of him. His efforts to help a difficult labor problem in Detroit assuredly ought not to be considered senile. True he tried prayer. To be sure it was a Protestant prayer. And Mr. Murphy, now Attorney General and our former Governor, also tried prayer. His was a Catholic prayer. We Michigan folks would not think it senile or flippant...
...Arbor, 80,000 Midwest rooters turned out for the 36th annual Michigan-Ohio State game, watched Tom Harmon & Co., with the aid of Old 83 ("a sort of psychic double cross" play originally concocted by Fielding Yost for his point-a-minute teams), outsmart Ohio State's pow erful machine that had been beaten only once this season (by Cornell). Despite last week's loss (21-to-14), Ohio State finished in front in the Big Ten race (with five Conference victories, one defeat), nosed out Iowa's Iron Men who, unable to do more than...
Wisconsin's Governor Julius Peter ("Julius the Bust") Heil, who has not made a notable success of governing his own State, astonished the nation by implicitly criticizing his neighbor, Michigan's good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson. Referring to the Chrysler automobile workers' strike, Governor Heil declared: "You've got to use strong methods. I would like to be the Governor of Michigan today...
...Berlin bureau chief. Born in Berlin, he is the son of a foreign correspondent: the late Seymour Beach Conger Sr. spent 13 years in Russia and Germany for Associated Press, was attached to the German Army during World War I. Young Conger was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1932, went twice around the world, then joined the Herald Tribune staff two years...