Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inadvertently picked up some unexpected information at the close of the second ballot. When the Dewey total was announced, the delegates swarmed into the aisles, carrying Baker along with them until he swirled into a private caucus being held on the floor by heads-together Governors Kim Sigler, of Michigan, Jim Duff, of Pennsylvania, and Senator Raymond Baldwin, of Connecticut, who were trying to decide what to do about Dewey on the third ballot. Pinned against Sigler's broad back, Baker couldn't help overhearing the forthcoming strategy...
Rooted in Concrete. Next morning, they did, and agreed to expand the coalition. At a meeting the next afternoon (again at 2031 Locust), Duff, Taft and Stassen sat down with Connecticut's national committeeman, Harold Mitchell (representing favorite son Ray Baldwin), and Kim Sigler, governor of Michigan, leader of the Vandenberg forces. California's Earl Warren was represented by a close friend, Preston Hotchkiss. They figured that the coalition could count on 630 votes-more than enough to stop Dewey...
Time was running out. Agreement on a housing bill seemed hopeless. Michigan's Jesse Wolcott got the House Rules Committee to kill a bill carrying what he called the "socialistic" provisions of the Senate's Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill for slum clearance and 500,000 low-cost housing units. The Senate balked at his own housing bill which he rammed through the House under a gag rule. It extended tax privileges to private builders, guaranteed their profits and mortgages. Cried New Hampshire's Charles Tobey: "A monstrosity . . . The veterans have been flim-flammed...
Comptroller Kohler was a natural for the assignment. A 55-year-old Michigan-born accountant (from Tom Dewey's home town of Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...
...Michigan's Chuck Fonville, 21, the world's best shotputter, tossed the 16-lb. ball 54 feet, 7 inches to win the N.C.A.A. crown for a second year. His closest competitor: Discus-Thrower Gordien, who shot-puts as a sideline...