Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given a considerable amount of attention. Little is added to what has already appeared in various other college publications, save for the revelation of the activity of Michigan industrialists who were "observers" at the Madison convention...
When the House convened next day, the wrangling began all over again. For six hours that afternoon and six the next, the debate ranged over familiar, barren ground. Michigan's Clare Hoffman, who is bitterly isolationist and antiCommunist, rose up to quote from Washington's Farewell Address: "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?" Then, quite unpredictably, he branded the danger of world Communism "a false doctrine...
With the air of an unwilling valetudinarian, Michigan's handsome, boot-jawed Governor Kim Sigler got up to speak before the Economics Club of Detroit. Everybody in the ballroom of the Book-Cadillac Hotel knew that he would be operated on the next day for an ailing gall bladder...
...office of governor of Michigan," he said, "is now the crummiest job in the U.S." A man, he grumped, should be elected for four years instead of two. That way he would have time to develop a program instead of thinking about re-election a couple of months after...
...complaints was almost wistful: "If I don't get out of the hospital, for heaven's sake see that the next governor of Michigan has a place in which to live." The state has no governor's mansion. Governor Sigler lives with his wife in a three-room suite in the Olds Hotel across the street from the Capitol in Lansing. He said it gives him "cloisteritis...