Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Response. All through Taft's speech Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg had sat slouched in his chair, doodling with a pencil. Now he sprang to his feet, the color rising in his face. "I should think," he said, "[that] the Senator from Ohio would join me among the very first. ... If he found that those with whom we were cooperating were doing what we had contemplated and hoped for ... he would be the first to say it was a golden opportunity to continue this program...
...Campbell, president of the National Hockey League, hurried to Detroit to investigate. Obviously, big-league hockey couldn't stand the kind of black eye that the Black Sox Scandal had given baseball in 1919. Greying Clarence Campbell, a Rhodes scholar and ex-hockey referee, went into conference with Michigan's Governor Kim Sigler, bustled vigorously about Detroit for a few days, then announced triumphantly: "Nobody fixed anything anywhere...
...over the radios last week, but the man who was showing the biggest gains in the Republican presidential sweepstakes was Arthur Vandenberg. This week the Gallup poll clocked the race, confirmed what many a GOProfessional had already guessed: in the six weeks since Ike Eisenhower dropped out, the Michigan Senator's popularity had more than doubled; the declared candidates had neither gained nor lost much ground...
They weren't spinning like ballet dancers, but Art Valpey's 103 prospective, football players were beginning to get the hang of the Michigan system as the first week of spring practice ended...
Over in one half of the cage, Davey Nelson wheeled about 45 backfield men through the first easy stages of the Michigan system. At one point, the diminutive Nelson had his half-a-hundred charges doing slow motion spins and fakes in delicate terpsichorean unison...