Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good reasons made Michigan Republican "Fritz" Mueller a natural choice for Commerce Secretary: 1) as Assistant Secretary for three years (1955-58), then Under Secretary, and finally Acting Secretary after Strauss's resignation,'he is better equipped than anyone else to step into the top job as time runs out in the Eisenhower Administration; and 2) he should have little trouble getting Senate confirmation; his nomination as Under Secretary was quietly confirmed while the Strauss fight was going on. Moreover...
...firm still employs fewer than 100 workers, but Fritz Mueller has spread its name and fame by being a prodigious civic-affairs man-president of the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild, the local United Hospital Fund, the Chamber of Commerce, and football-boosting member of the governing board of Michigan State University (he holds an honorary M.S.U. doctor of laws degree and a gold-engraved lifetime pass to all M.S.U. athletic events). But neither his conservatism nor his clubbiness prevented him from pulling out of the National Association of Manufacturers when he disagreed with its labor policies...
With families enjoying the highest incomes in history, the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, which keeps a reliable temperature chart of consumer attitudes, spied a shift in the public mood. In the center's latest survey, out this week, the number of consumers who think the time is ripe to buy a house or used car showed a sharp upswing, and moderate upswings showed up among those who believe it is a good time to buy major household appliances and new cars, undertake large home improvements. The survey pointed out that some part of the public must...
Dean McGeorge Bundy announced the appointment of three social psychologists to the Harvard faculty, last Friday. Elliot Aronson, who received his Ph.D. from Stanford this spring, will be a Lecturer of Social Psychology, Richard D. Mann, Jr., an instructor at University of Michigan, will be Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, and John Trevor Pierce, now an instructor at Harvard, becomes a Lecturer on Social Psychology...
...SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS (218 pp.) -Translafed by William Arrowsmith-University of Michigan...