Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispersed a small British force. Three days later the British returned, found the Americans asleep, with no sentries posted, and fell upon them, killing some 150 and taking the rest prisoners. "Remember the Raisin" became a battle cry for the remainder of the War of 1812. Michigan Melee...
TIME'S reporting of the river ducking given rampant unionists by Michigan State College students (TiME, June 14) is too chary. Permit me to elaborate on such an unparalleled incident as the clashing of striking workers and college students...
...height of the melee involved about 3,000 students and some 200 strikers, and was witnessed by the Governor of Michigan, who rides daily on the campus. He dissuaded a group of R O. T. C. cavalrymen from mounting horses, riding down the invaders...
...Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got a Litt.D. from Colby, an L.H.D. from New York University. Two LL.D.'s apiece went to Cordell Hull (University of Pennsylvania and Yale), New York's Special Racket Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey (Tufts and the University of Michigan), new President Frederick Harold Stinchfield of the American Bar Association (Bowdoin and Bates), retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke (Bucknell and Columbia), RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones (Temple and New York University), John Gilbert Winant, onetime chairman of the Social Security Board (Oberlin and Knox). G-Man John Edgar...
...contains two cafés, the Nizamiah Mosque-designed on Oriental lines by Sir Brumwell Thomas-will be the finest in any non-Moslem land. For U. S. Mohammedans there are two places for formal worship, a small, three-story frame building in Brooklyn and a temple in Michigan City, Ind., whose 80 Moslems plan to build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore has the world's only mosque with a public address system, the muezzin's call...