Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Initiated with the Class of 1938, the National Scholarship plan for next year has embraced successful candidates in 13 states, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin...
...rubber workers last week reacted with enthusiasm and a surprising measure of success. Following depression in the motor industry, 37½ percent of the 40,000 normally employed in Akron by Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and General rubber companies were out of work. Like their C. I. O. brothers in Michigan, members of the United Rubber Workers of America complain that they are getting the short end of retrenchment. Young, levelheaded U. R. W. President Sherman Dalrymple accuses the companies of demoting foremen and other supervisors to production lines, letting out union men who otherwise would hold their jobs by seniority...
...magazines: Ken, Esquire, Film Fun, Thrilling Love, and 24 others; in Ann Arbor, Mich. The agency: ordinance committee of the city council, consisting of three University of Michigan professors, three local businessmen and a tailor. Authority: an ordinance passed in 1895 prohibiting the distribution of obscene literature, providing for fines or jail sentences for violators. After two days of loud protest from the university campus. Ken and Esquire were removed from the banned list on condition that they refrain from publishing obscene matter. Judge of obscene matter: City Attorney William M. Laird...
...meet was a victory for the West Coast and its orange blossom climate; Southern California amassed 47 1/2 points, almost double that of the runner-up, Michigan State. The University of California was third with 22 1/2, Pitt 20 1/2, Manhattan 15, Harvard 12, Princeton 10 1/2. N. Y. U. 10, Rhode Island 9, and Columbia...
Ludlum Steel Corp. Allegheny Ludlum will be the industry's 18th largest company, with an annual capacity of 138,000 tons of quality alloys, 400,000 tons of flat-rolled soft steel, plants in upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan...