Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...673A group of rebels from all party factions met in Pittsburgh early this month and demanded Scott's head. Now that they had it, they were not sure just whom they wanted in his place.* Among the likeliest candidates: New Jersey's National Committeeman Guy Gabrielson, Michigan's National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield, Nebraska's State Chairman A. T. ("Bert") Howard...
...Reformer. From boyhood Frank Murphy had had a kind of desperate intentness. He carried with him the Bible given him by his mother and read a chapter from it every day. He played football at the University of Michigan until a 220-Ib. center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
...Prosecutor. Near the end of his second mayoralty term, F.D.R. sent him off to serve as Governor General of the Philippines, where he helped reform the islands' judicial system, improved its hospitals and pushed through suffrage. He returned in 1936 to get himself elected governor of Michigan...
...student of regional U.S. speaking habits, McDavid himself comes from South Carolina, and he has a purpose in all this random conversation. He is helping gather material for the multi-volume Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada which Philologist Hans Kurath is directing from the University of Michigan. The Atlas will trace lines of speech similarities ("isoglosses") on detailed sectional maps, and will take several more years to finish. Meanwhile, research already done on McDavid's beat provides a preview of the sort of thing the atlas-makers hope to do for the whole northern continent...
Married. Robert Richard Chappuis, 26, All America (Michigan '47) passing ace, now under contract to the Chicago Hornets; and Ann Gestie, 21, his campus sweetheart; in Fargo...