Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloakroom leadership. Texas' Tom Connally, 71, who has lost some of his shaggy hair because of shingles, will take back the big job of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has labored in comparative obscurity for the last two years under the shadow of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
...will fall to Illinois' 82-year-old Adolph J. Sabath, the Ways & Means Committee to North Carolina's Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, who last week celebrated his 85th birthday. In the place of New Jersey's Fred Hartley as chairman of the Labor Committee will be Michigan's liberal John Lesinski. Chairmanship of the Un-American Activities Committee will return to Georgia's John S. Wood, who, following past form, will probably let Mississippi's ranting John Rankin run the show...
...more colorful politicians than Michigan's white-maned Republican Governor Kim Sigler. His piped vests, beribboned spectacles, and neon-colored ties made him the most splendiferous dude since Illinois' pink-bearded Senator J. Hamilton ("Ham") Lewis. But 54-year-old ex-Cowboy Kim Sigler burned a little too brightly. During two years in office, he tramped on legislative toes, ignored party wheel horses, dictatorially alienated members of his own cabinet...
Last week, as Michigan loyally gave Tom Dewey a majority and elected a G.O.P. legislature, the voters quietly scuttled Kim Sigler in favor of a Democrat, and a virtually unknown Democrat at that. He was a tall (6 ft. 3½ in.) young (37) Detroit attorney named G. (for Gerhardt) Mennen Williams...
...mortgaged his house in Detroit s fashionable Grosse Pointe suburb to raise funds, and did his campaigning by driving around the state with his wife Nancy, in a beat-up old De Soto convertible. He benefited by Michigan labor's determined espousal of the Democratic cause, but never managed to draw a crowd bigger than 350 people. Last week as the votes came in, Soapy Williams seemed fully as surprised as Kim Sigler...