Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contra this hearsay assertion, unsupported by facts, that France possesses the Paul Bunyan of banners, I advance the claim of Michigan to that distinction...
...host of Third Termites busily boring in the frame of U. S. politics was last week added the biggest & best to date, no less a personage than Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley. At Mackinac Island, where he went to exhort Michigan Democrats to elect Rooseveltians to Congress, he was asked about his own Presidential ambitions for 1940. Bluntly Jim Farley replied...
...much-assaulted audience by sounding not bad at all. Encouraged by the success of this National High School Orchestra, Dr. Maddy two years later founded a National Music Camp on property he bought, in collaboration with a Minneapolis supervisor named Thaddeus Philander Woodbury Giddings, at Interlochen in northern Michigan...
...outside the three-mile limit. From Los Angeles Eduard I. von Glatte flew his fiancée, Jane Webster, three miles up into the air, got the airliner's Captain Richard Bowman to marry them while Mrs. Bowman and her five children witnessed. After they had flown to Michigan for a honeymoon, they were informed that Los Angeles authorities did not consider the wedding legal. The quasi-newlyweds returned to California, decided to bring suit to prove that an air marriage was as good as a sea marriage...
Last winter a free-lance deep-sea diver and experimenter named Max Nohl had himself lowered 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan, thus making the world's deepest dive to date in a diving suit (TIME, Dec. 13).* In so doing, Max Nohl conclusively showed the value of a helium-oxygen mixture for deep diving. Helium is a light gas, requires little effort to inhale. It also seems to forestall that bugbear of divers, "the bends" (gas bubbles in the blood...