Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trail. During the 80th's sessions, Bob Taft had walked more or less silently and uncomfortably in the footsteps of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg on matters of foreign policy. He followed that trail no longer. "I am not happy," he cried, "about the country's foreign policy...
Nothing Doing in Owosso. In his native Michigan, on the last lap of his trip, he had encountered a distinct coolness among Republican state leaders. To be sure, they came to visit him at Owosso, where he spent four days with his mother, Mrs. Annie Dewey (whom he calls "Mater"). With Arthur Vandenberg on their minds, Michigan Republicans were noncommittal about even a second-or third-ballot vote for Dewey. But Dewey was confident they would come...
...take them to Ann Arbor to see the University of Michigan campus. Tom Dewey, '23, hoped that some day 15-year-old Tom Jr. would also go to Michigan. When newsmen asked Tom Jr. what he thought of the university, he snapped: "No comment." Tom Sr. spoke to his son in private. Later Tom Jr. announced that he thought the university was "wonderful." Dewey made no bones about wishing he had left the boys at home. "They got too much attention," he said sadly, "and much of the good work Mrs. Dewey and I put in on them...
...Senate one bitter speech followed another. Texas' white-maned Senator Tom Connally shook a trembling finger at Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, accusing him of pouring out "the vomit of his hate, prejudice, rancor and ambition." While Bob Taft pleaded with him, Idaho's banjo-playing Democratic Senator Glen Taylor cunningly piled books on his desk as though he was preparing to make a long harangue. He sent a note to the press gallery: "Don't worry . . . I'm not going to make a speech. I just want to drive Taft to distraction-senatorial...
...William T. Manning, retired Bishop of New York but still as vigilant as ever, sparked the Living Church editorial with a letter published in the same issue. He did not directly mention the two consenting bishops involved-William Robert Moody of Lexington (Ky.) and Frank W. Creighton of Michigan-but he left no doubt about what he thought of them. Wrote...