Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distribute leaflets, United Automobile Workers, planning to distribute more literature, last fortnight applied for legal protection from the city of Dearborn, were informed that U. A. W. was a "legal nonentity" (TIME, Aug. 16).* Last week, guarded by State police who were on hand at the request of Michigan's Governor Murphy, 800 U. A. W. unionists showed up outside the gates of the Ford plant. It was raining. As Ford workers passed they were handed soggy copies of the U. A. Worker headlined: FORD DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY. More rain bucketed down. Unionists scampered for shelter...
...Pure. In a scientific industry, Pure Oil Co. has long distinguished itself for the success of its geologists. When the first commercial oil well was drilled in Michigan twelve years ago, Pure Oil men conferred with engineers of Dow Chemical Co. (TIME, Dec. 28), drew maps from salt well records showing probable oil structures near Mt. Pleasant. After buying leases on 500,000 Michigan acres the company proceeded to open up one of the big fields which have since made oil Michigan's third most important industry...
Hawaii and Puerto Rico, although voteless, have long contended that they are entitled to equal consideration with Louisiana, Michigan, Colorado or any other State. Delegates from Honolulu are forever pointing out that Hawaii pays more income tax than any of 16 States. But last week U. S. citizens in those islands feared that the House of Representatives regarded them as mere colonies. Whereas New York or Georgia might refine all the sugar they could get their hands on, the House restricted Hawaiian refiners to 3%, Puerto Rico refiners to 16% of their own sugar which they produce for consumption...
Into Detroit one day last week pulled a special train bringing Archbishop Edward Francis Mooney to head the newly created Detroit archdiocese, fifth largest of the 17 in the U. S. (TIME, June 14). His pince-nez flashing, tall Archbishop Mooney descended to the platform where Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy and a representative of the city's Mayor Frank Couzens waited to shake his hand...
...nearby Roosevelt Park, throngs of Catholics and non-Catholics presently heard the Catholic Governor greet his new spiritual leader with a reference to Michigan's "weighty problems of social and economic adjustment.'' Said Governor Murphy: "To the solution of these problems Archbishop Mooney brings a world of wisdom, of kindly understanding and of farseeing vision. I rejoice in the thought of the great good that a shepherd of his spiritual content can do for the people in encouraging the Christian approach to their problems...