Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minutes before Michigan's Republican-controlled state senate was due to vote last week on Democratic Governor Gerhard Mennen Williams' latest plan to ease the state's financial troubles, the state treasurer sent each senator a statement of Michigan's obligations and cash in hand. Its net: Michigan, in terms of its general fund, was broke; by month's end there would be no money for 20,000 welfare cases, by May 7 no salaries for state employees, university faculty members, or for the legislators themselves...
...point: Michigan Republicans, who have had a field day blaming "Soapy" Williams-and his powerful political ally, U.A.W. President Walter Reuther-for leading the state to bankruptcy, had an urgent responsibility to act fast if they did not want to be blamed themselves...
...from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...
...attacking Johnson for highhandedness in making Democratic policy decisions, and the attacks had brought Proxmire more mail than anything else he had ever done. Oregon's Wayne Morse, traveling in Wisconsin, made the papers with a complaint that Johnson was a "Charlie McCarthy in a political ventriloquist act." Michigan's unemployment-harassed Pat McNamara, whose Senate achievements have hardly been worth a stick of type, squawked at Johnson for blocking liberal Democratic attempts to broaden unemployment compensation. Pennsylvania's Joe Clark dashed off his second "Dear Lyndon" letter proposing that liberals have more say in policymaking...
...panels will analyze the following projects: Gratoit in Detroit, Michigan; Vallingby, Sweden; Don Mills in Toronto, Canada; Washington Square in Philadelphia, Penna.; Mill Creek in St. Louis, Mo.; and Lake Meadows in Chicago...