Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each spring since 1918, when Benzie County (Mich.) Clerk Newt Ely found the creek near his house green with smelt struggling upstream from Lake Michigan to spawn, fishermen have flocked to brooks around the Great Lakes, have taken in 8,000,000 pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town...
Research Fellowships to Stefan A. Riesenfeld, of Palo Alto, Calif., LL.B. University of California '37, a candidate for S.J.D. Harvard this June; Loring P. Jordan, Jr. 3L, of Wakefield, Mass., A.B. Dartmouth '35; Seymour J. Rubin., of Chicago Ill., A.B. University of Michigan '35, a candidate for LL.B. Harvard this June; Maxwell S. Isenbergh 3L, of Peekskill, N. Y., A., Cornell '34; Arthur H. Robertson, of London, England, B.C.L. Oxford '37 a candidate for LL.M. Harvard this June; Melvin Cohen, of Chicago, Il., a candidate for J.D. this June at the University of Chicago; Bertha H. Putnam, formerly Professor...
...Washington last week, friends of lively Elizabeth Vandenberg, 26-year-old daughter of Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, were surprised to hear of her marriage to Edward Pfeiffer, Trade Extension Bureau Manager of True Story Magazine. This was the second time in two weeks that lively Betty Vandenberg, who year ago made her debut as a pianist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, contrived to make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list...
...usual without benefit of outside management was at once relieving and disturbing. Here was a strike that was not a strike: the "strikers" were working and the product was being produced. (Whether or not the "strikers" expected to be paid for working while striking was not clear.) Unintentionally, militant Michigan Labor had, in effect, provided an object lesson in bloodless revolution...
...cause of this portentous prospect was a dispute as to whether an expired contract guaranteeing no wage reductions should be extended for three months or for one year as the union demanded. Early this week Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, who knows how to remain calm under labor fire, deposited the contending parties in separate hotel rooms and, after seven consecutive hours of shuttling back & forth, the union agreed to call off the "revolution" in exchange for a four-month extension...