Word: michigan
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...representing the people of his district and, as a byproduct of that, trying to get himself re-elected." So wrote TIME Associate Editor Champ Clark early this month to TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, as he outlined the reporting requirements for this week's cover story on Michigan Congressman Charles Chamberlain. Writer Clark had a rare and unique understanding of what he was looking for. The first Champ Clark, the grandfather for whom he was named, was a Missouri Congressman for 26 years, for eight years was a powerful Speaker of the House, in 1912 was the strongest...
Tuned Embodiment. Like most northern congressional campaigns, the race in Michigan's Sixth District is a tossup. But in his fight to win, Chuck Chamberlain stands out-perhaps as much as any other beleaguered member of the House-as the hustling, aggressive, inexhaustible, politically tuned embodiment of what it takes to run for re-election to Congress. To begin with, he has a running start because he knows and understands his district through personal identification. He was born on an Ingham County farm, heir to three generations of Ingham County farmers ; he worked as a youth in Lansing...
Chamberlain began looking around, comparing notes with his colleagues to see how they met the problem of maintaining common bonds with their districts. He joined the Michigan Republican delegation at breakfast every other week, became a regular at the weekly Tuesday-afternoon sessions of the Acorn Club, an informal organization of freshmen Republican Congressmen who shared with Chamberlain the problem of learning. Such group meetings were helpful, but Chamberlain was still the only Representative from the Sixth District of Michigan, and slowly, painfully, he developed his own system of keeping pace with the folks back home...
During the period when they were released on trial, the girls were not permitted to appear as figure skaters outside of Cambridge and had to refuse invitations to skate in Los Angeles, at Michigan State, and elsewhere, according to Field...
...doubtful that a Federal health insurance bill could survive the Washington gauntlet of conservative congressmen and AMA lobbyists. But in some of the wealthier and more liberal states--New York, Pennsylvania, California, Michigan, and others--public health insurance might be initiated. Successful implementation of state insurance programs would provide inspiration and incentive to establish a national health insurance plan...