Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such oratory did no more than fray congressional tempers. When Michigan's Bartel J. Jonkman proposed that the amount of aid be cut to $290 million, he was routed by a vote of 171 to 78. When Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith, with the backing of Charlie Halleck, proposed a $90 million cut, he could muster only 47 ayes to 147 noes. When Oklahoma's Glen D. Johnson, a heretical Democrat, moved to recommit (and thus kill) the bill, he was howled down. Finally, late one afternoon, Speaker Joe Martin took the entire House by surprise...
Free-Trader Pauley said he did not think that grain speculation had caused higher food prices-"even though certain loose charges to that effect have been tossed about by some political parties and candidates." Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson asked blandly if by any chance he meant President Truman? "No," snapped Ed Pauley, "I mean Harold Stassen...
Johnson found the door shut at New York's City College, Eisler at the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin (Marzani was also banned at Wisconsin). Howard Fast tried to speak on four campuses (Columbia, Brooklyn, City College and Hunter College) before a fifth, New York University...
After meeting Boston College at the Boston Garden tomorrow night, Bill Barelay's charges will cross the Appalachians to clash with the nationally-known quintets of Michigan State, Iowa, and Illinois within a four day period. Returning East after New Year's day, the Crimson will round out the vacation campaign against Rochester at the latter's up-state New York court on January...
Journeying to the hinterlands, the Varsity will engage Michigan State at East Lansing on December 29. Featuring a couple of recent transfers from the University of Kentucky, including 6-foot-4 center Bob Braunen, the Westerners will have games with Michigan, Purdue, and Indiana behind them when they face the Barclaymen...