Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe watched last week's political hoedown with its heart in its mouth. But Europe's politicians were learning that they need not worry much about the tumult and shouting of the U.S. political campaign. If they had learned enough, they watched one man. That man was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
...leader of one side was Pennsylvania's Governor James Henderson Duff, a strapping, affable redhead, who believes with an evangelist's zeal that the future of the party lies with a progressive candidate. The man who best fitted that description, by Jim Duff's analysis, was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
...just working at my afternoon job at Slater's Book Store," said Michigan Senior Art Derdarian, "when somebody came in, interviewed me, and offered me $70 a week at Burroughs Adding Machine...
Despite the rosy glow, many members of the Class of '48 were not yet ready or willing to leave the campus. Enrollments in Michigan and Tulane graduate schools were way up; 56% of Harvard's seniors planned to stay safely behind ivied walls, even after commencement...
Died. Charles Williams Nash, 84, hardheaded, rags-to-riches automaker; of a heart ailment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An unschooled farm boy who called himself the "most common cuss in the world," he rose from upholstery stuffer to general superintendent of a Michigan carriage company, turned to automaking in 1910 with William Durant (organizer of General Motors). He was made president of G.M. in 1912, four years later left to go on his own, finally retired from active management of Nash when it merged with Kelvinator...