Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murderous couple's luck had run out; suspicious neighbors called the cops. At week's end, Ray and Martha, having told their brutal story, were waiting to see whether they would be tried in Michigan, where the maximum penalty is a life sentence, or would be extradited to New York to face the electric chair. Blubbered Martha: "I love him." Said sly little Ray: "I'm kind. I'm really kind at heart. But they should kill that woman...
...Detroit. To this Bavaria, America has brought not only snack bars and jukeboxes but also a man who is easily the most interesting ruler the country has known since mad King Ludwig II. He is Murray D. van Wagoner, onetime Michigan state commissioner of roads, onetime governor of Michigan, today governor of Bavaria. A portly, ruddy-faced man with a kind of gruff charm, Van Wagoner engages in no such lunacies as Ludwig, who built bizarre stone castles all over Bavaria, and ended his life by jumping into a lake. Van Wagoner's castles are all built...
...governor's difficulties is that he cannot help conducting himself as if he were governing Michigan. He had this to say about denazification: "There's a lot of talk about whether Nazis who've been in camps should be able to run for office. I don't know-but prison records aren't always bad politically. I knew in the Polish section in Detroit, if you've been to jail a couple of times, it helps a lot if you're running for office! And, for that matter, look at Curley." The governor...
...grandson of a college president (Alexis Caswell of Brown) and the son of another (James Burrill Angell of the University of Michigan), James Angell had spent his whole life on campuses. He had been a pupil of John Dewey at Michigan, a student of William James at Harvard, finally joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. He became one of the top psychologists in the U.S., known in the academic world as the "creator of psychologists...
...Blue should place most of its men in the individual championships at Princeton next week, and is heavily touted to win the nationals over Ohio and Michigan later this spring...