Word: michigan
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Listing the occasions on which Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy has been absent from the State, Lieut. Governor Leo J. Nowicki invoked an 1840 statute, asked the State auditor to pay him the Governor's salary for the days in question. Figuring that he had been away 32 days at $13.88 a day,* nettled Governor Murphy sent the auditor his check for $444.42. Lieut. Governor Nowicki (who has been earning $200 a week since July as a bankruptcy trustee) thereupon claimed the Governor's salary not for 32 days but for 70, returned his own check...
...Michigan's Governor gets $5,000 a year, as compared to $3,000 for South Dakota's, $25,000 for New York...
Declared Legally Dead. Paul Redfern, aviator, who disappeared ten years ago, after taking off from Brunswick, Ga., to fly to Rio de Janeiro; by a Michigan circuit court judge in Detroit, at the appeal of his widow. Visionary travelers have reported his survival as "a god that fell from the sky" in Brazil, as a crippled "medicine man" in Dutch Guiana...
...Orange Bowl. Miami-Alabama Poly (Auburn) 6, Michigan State...
...factory during their sitdown. Mr. Ledyard's congregation rebelled. Resigning as of last week, the young-looking minister made ready to become organization director of the Quarry Workers' International Union, with headquarters at Barre, Vt. For him this was not a new field. Universalist Ledyard, Michigan-born and a Spanish-American War veteran, held a pastorate in Northfield, Vt. for five years, did some field work among quarry workers before becoming an Americanization teacher for Mexicans, a homesteader in Oregon and, in 1924, returning to the historical church in Kansas where he shocked people by sermonizing...