Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fuchs put the 16-pound shot 56 feet, 11 1/2 inches last week in the New York Met meet. Michigan's world record-holder Chuck Fonville is the only athlete who has bettered that distance. Appel has vaulted 14 feet, Wade has run a 4:13 mile, and the freshman Hipple twins, who high jump in their bare feet, generally get up around 6 feet, 2 inches...
...Detroit, Michigan, George R. Berkaw, Jr. Assistant Vice-President of The Detroit Bank; Dearborn, Michigan, Tom Lilley '34, Manager, Financial Analysis Department of Ford Division, ford Mctor Co.; Houston, Texas, William S. Bush; and Indianapolis, Indiana, Edward H. Adriance of Eli Lilly...
...would want to kill him. Walter Reuther wasn't quite sure either: "The same people who paid to have me shot paid to have my brother shot and for the same reason. They could be diehard elements among employers, or they could be Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson guessed that it was the Communists (the party hotly denied it), got the U.S. Senate to call for FBI investigation. Others guessed that it might be the work of some crackpot, either anti-union or a U.A.W. man soured by bitter fights within the union...
Throughout its history the University of Michigan has had a ban on drinking in fraternity houses and dormitories. But any group of Michigan students determined to throw a bottle party in their quarters could think of dozens of speakeasy tricks to foil the campus cops...
That rocked the campus. Cried the undergraduate Michigan Daily: "The atmosphere of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera mixed with Keystone cops . . ." The Daily wanted the dry law repealed...