Word: michigan
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Many scientists accept the theory that sunlight influences conception and hence that Eskimos are sterile during the long Arctic nights. In last week's Science, Zoologist Wayne L. Whitaker of the University of Michigan rose to defend Eskimo potency. Analysis of all the births in West Greenland between the years 1901 and 1930 shows that more conceptions occurred in April, the first month of spring, and December, the Eskimos' visiting season, than in any other months. His conclusions: 1) whatever sexual debility may have been observed by early explorers is probably due to famine during the lone, cruel...
...years ago when the Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator were withdrawn by Jim Farley to let the Farmer-Labor candidates beat the Republicans; in Nebraska two years ago when Mr. Roosevelt, a Democrat, urged the re-election of Senator Norris, an Independent Republican, over a Democrat; in. Michigan, when Republican aid was sought in the primary to nominate Frank Murphy for Governor...
Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, agreed in principle with his President but cheerfully recalled how Michigan Democrats, in their weakened condition prior to 1928, used to vote in the Republican primaries as a matter of course. "In the Southern States," observed Senator Brown, "it is about the only way the [Republican] minority can express itself...
This meeting was the final flash of a highly electric U. A. W. week. When President Martin heard it had been called, he promptly called two rival meetings of his own, one the same day in Detroit for the heads of U. A. W.'s Michigan locals, another next day in Cleveland for Ohio locals-in order to make union men choose which side they would meet with. But having announced his intention to keep his Detroit meeting going until midnight if necessary to put deserters on the spot, he adjourned it early, mournfully watched a line of cars...
Last week 125 of the numerous people in the U. S. who are professionally preoccupied with the traffic problem went to Ann Arbor, Mich, for the two-week National Institute for Traffic Safety Training, held at the University of Michigan. In Ann Arbor they paid $10, got a room at the Michigan Union, signed up for classes. Several things they were taught might have surprised many a citizen...