Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three awards were made in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Tennessee; California, Colorado, Ohio, Texas, and Utah received two apiece. The remaining four winners hall from Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oregon...
...Freshman Scholarship winners with 35 awards. Of these, 29 go to public school men--six of them from the Boston Public Latin School--and six to private school graduates. New York follows with 24 recipients--16 of them from New York City--while Ohio ranks third with 11, Michigan fourth with 4, and Wisconsin fifth with 3. One apiece go to Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, and the District of Columbia...
Party lines sagged and ancient political enemies got together. On the opposition side, New York's Leftist Vito Marcantonio was joined by far-right Republicans like Michigan's Clare Hoffman, Pennsylvania's Robert Rich; by isolationists like Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith...
...Cried Michigan's Paul Shafer: "A year ago the Republicans fought rent control. The Democrats were for it. If they were crazy last year, why should we be this year?" Big-"city Congressmen were just as angry for the opposite reason. They claimed that a provision permitting a 15% rent boost in return for a two-year lease was putting a shotgun in the landlord's hands...
...thirds of Chicago's drinking water supply is nothing but chlorinated (unfiltered) water from Lake Michigan, which is also used for sewage disposal. The city law requiring pasteurization of ice cream and frozen desserts, the investigators found, is laxly enforced. Private scavengers still collect about one-third of the city's refuse and deposit it in four fly-ridden, ratinfested, unregulated dumps...