Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later the United Electrical Workers' Jim Matles agreed to a similar contract for U.E.'s 40,000 G.M. workers. That fact seemed sure to have an effect on U.E.'s negotiations at Westinghouse and General Electric. Next day, the lyday Chrysler strike was over. Michigan's dapper Governor Kim Sigler dashed from Lansing to his Detroit office, where Chrysler and the U.A.W. had resumed peace talks. A few hours later, Chrysler and the union agreed on a flat 13^ increase. Ford, which had proposed a wage cut, faced a bargaining date with U.A.W. June...
...Michigan's hidebound Representative Fred L. Crawford knows what headlines are made of; last year he proposed that the U.S. order Russia to disarm or be atomized instead. Last week, with a nudge from the Hearst press, he made another headline. Hearst's Washington bureau had discovered that the head of the Commerce Department's Office of Industry Cooperation, John C. Virden, had a 22-year-old daughter working in Washington for Tass, the official Russian news agency...
...eleven years, old Crapo Cornell Smith* became a well-known sight on the University of Michigan campus. A prim, courtly and reserved man, he seldom spoke to anyone. No one knew much about him except that he had graduated from the law school in 1896, that he had now retired from a Detroit law firm, had come back to the university and asked permission to live there. President Ruthven saw no reason not to grant the old grad's wish. A bachelor in his 70s, Crapo lived in one room at the Student Union, and spent most...
...months ago Crapo Smith died. He was 79. And last week Michigan got the surprise. The old man had left $1,000,000 to the university. The money would go into scholarships, gifts, loans and rewards of merit to worthy, needy students, like the ones Crapo Smith had been silently watching for the last eleven years...
...Grandson of Michigan Governor Henry H. Crapo (1864-68) and cousin of Automaker William Crapo Durant...