Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply are for Russia!" roared Texas' Tom Connally. "What do you want us to do-just sit down and let Russia absorb the world and do nothing about it?" Equally annoyed but more restrained, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg chided Wallace: "I cannot condone your conduct in going about insisting that your country ... is bent on world conquest in one form or another." But in two hours of shouted questions and evasive answers, Henry Wallace had one response which nobody challenged. Said Henry: "I think for her own interests Russia would be utterly foolish to carry...
...Little Too Far." In their effort to line up a two-thirds majority for the treaty, Connally and Michigan's ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued...
...Michigan's Clare Hoffman lifted a nasal voice from the Republican side. "Do not be too much concerned about these jobs, you Democrats," he mocked, "be cause in Michigan and ultimately in the nation these jobs are not going to be given to Democrats; they are going to the people named by the C.I.O. boys...
...Truman legislation was wrapped up in the Lesinski bill, named after the House Labor Committee's tactless chairman, John Lesinski, a labor Congressman from Michigan since 1933. The Lesinski bill would 1) repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, 2) reinstate the Wagner Act with a few slightly stiffening changes. One of the changes was a wispy device for handling national emergency strikes by setting up presidential boards of inquiry and requiring a 30-day "cooling-off period...
...girls in Martha Cook dormitory at the University of Michigan signed a pledge to refrain from "displays of affection," in the dormitory lounge...