Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With New York in Republican hands, it is California's Brown, Pennsylvania's Lawrence, New Jersey's Meyner, Michigan's Williams and the other big-delegation state leaders who can do much to set the trend at the start of the Los Angeles convention. And in the floor fighting that follows, they and their favorite sons could become the most sought-after Democratic Governors in many a convention year...
Even some of Johnson's steadiest fellow Senators are uneasy: word leaked out last week that Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy had joined Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Pennsylvania's Joe Clark, Michigan's Pat McNamara and Illinois' Paul Douglas in a quiet move last month to draw up their own legislative program -a move that Johnson nipped by incorporating some of their suggestions into the official party program...
Last week, after a second look at the bill, Republican Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan complained that the alleged saving was a "deception." Camouflaged in the fine print of the bill was an unmentioned provision loosening up the rules on pensions for widows and orphans. Under present law, the needy relicts of World War I veterans-but not those of other foreign wars-may claim pensions, even if the husband's death was in no way connected with his military service. The House bill extends the same privilege to widows and children of 205,684 veterans of World...
...always please British commanders-notably General Thomas Gage, whose light infantry showed up poorly in comparison with the bush fighters, who had become known as "Rogers' Rangers." Gage became Rogers' lifelong enemy, and years later, when the New Hampshire man commanded the outpost at Michilimackinac on Lake Michigan, Gage was to bring a wholly unfounded charge of treason against...
...Ford and other automakers, the Michigan decision means that hereafter, when the union strikes a key production plant, the employers will have to pay the bulk of the strike benefits, except at the establishment actually on strike. Under the law, each company is liable for benefits paid to its employees. When its balance is drawn down, its payroll taxes go up until the proper reserve is established. In any future strike on the Canton pattern, said a Ford spokesman last week, the company must figure on paying $3,000,000 a week to U.A.W. members on top of the loss...