Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the Senate debated ERP. Michigan's big Arthur Vandenberg, imbued with a sense of "terrible urgency," and with most of the Senate behind him, drove hard for swift action. But against him a handful lined up in relays to argue, haggle, hold back. From the crowded galleries, spectators' attention focused on the massive figure of Big Van, on his feet most of the time, parrying questions, thrusting home his answers, meeting objections & complaints. When he left the floor, Massachusetts' able young Henry
...Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg had displayed a suitable reluctance. He had insisted that he did not want his name entered in Nebraska's presidential primary next month. But Raymond A. McConnell Jr., chairman of a bipartisan group which thought the public should have a chance to express itself on all G.O.P. possibilities, had been stubborn...
...schools were holding back. They nervously noted that it was costing the University of Michigan $12 million to finish structures estimated at $8,000,000 when they were started. Observed the cautious treasurer of Florida's little Rollins College: "Private or endowed institutions which resist the temptation to expand [may look] unprogressive now, but in a few years they may be pointed to as 'Pillars of wisdom...
...Michigan, like most colleges, has a song which it sings in victory or defeat...
Before the broadcast, the Crimson head coach cast aside any fears that the Cambridge climate might scare him back to Michigan by putting his used grey car on the auction block and announcing that he expected a new Crimson car to be delivered some time in the next month...