Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepted $270,000 from C.I.O.'s cornerstone, the United Mine Workers of America, for its 1936 campaign. Alert C.I.O. Lawyer Morris Ernst asked Vice Chairman Hague if he would repudiate, for example, the C.I.O. supporters of Democratic Senator Alben Barkley in Kentucky, of Democratic Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan...
...only skyscraping girls' school in the world'' is small (600 students) Mundelein College, which is lodged near Lake Michigan in a 15-story building on Chicago's North Side. A popular teacher of physics and botany at Mundelein is Sister Mary Therese, member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, daughter of a Chicago contractor. When Mundelein moved into its skyscraper in 1930, it was seen that only two of its three elevator shafts would be needed for vertical traffic. This gave bespectacled Sister Mary, who was then in her late 205, an idea. Last...
...unusual is the conferring of honorary degrees on Government bigwigs. Last week's crop included Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy (St. John's University, Brooklyn), New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman (Syracuse), Wisconsin's U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. (University of Wisconsin), Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Temple). But this year's commencements produced a remarkable political echo. Honorary degrees went to no fewer than three of President Roosevelt's opponents in last year's battle over the Supreme Court-Michigan's Senator Arthur...
...eighth time since it first competed 14 years ago. Although its 17-man team won only two events and tied for a third, it placed in the ten events in which it was entered, amassed a total of 4?i points, almost twice as many as the runner-up, Michigan State...
...MICHIGAN...