Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Besides, they tend to congregate in restaurants just as at the University of Michigan, 'chewing the fat,' criticizing the faculty and talking about overturning the government. They go over ... to get a couple of glasses of beer sometimes, which isn't a good idea for the morning classes...
...Conservatory and the Boston Symphony, the entire Smetana Opera The Bartered Bride sung by the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, concerts by the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Musical Arts Chorus of Easton, Pa., the Lincoln Cathedral Choir of Lincoln, Neb., the Roth Quartet playing in Princeton, the University of Michigan Band. Pennsylvania alone arranged 50 special programs. Pittsburgh played orchestral works written by Pittsburghers. Los Angeles put on Charles Wakefield Cadman's Indian opera Shanewis. New Orleans had choruses sing in schools and playgrounds. In Indianapolis, over an NBC hookup, 275 pianists sat down at 150 pianos and played...
...Senate would pass a bill enfranchising women, and the House would kill it. At the next the House would do the passing, the Senate the killing. Realizing that the men could not save their political faces forever with such trickery, the women campaigned ever more vigorously. When, in 1933, Michigan's Bachelor Frank Murphy became the first Democratic Governor-General in twelve years, they had the gallant ally they needed. With his help they finally got a suffrage bill passed...
...with obliging helpfulness Senator Vandenberg has proposed a plan which can dispel the heavy fog engulfing government finances and the growing hostility of Capitol Hill. If Congress accept the Michigan Senator's plan for an unemployment census, the President would have a sound basis upon which to formulate his demands and a reliable indication of the true success of his program, Mr. Roosevelt would no longer be torn between two factions demanding from one to three billions for relief, and Presidential estimates would cease to be an economically unscientific but politically prudent mean between...
James G. Miller '37 of Lakewood, Ohio, won the Edwin DeT. Bechtel prize of $100 for the best philosophical essay submitted by graduates or undergraduates in Philosophy. Miller transferred from the University of Michigan...