Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady of Free China. Her plea-lackadaisically met-was for more U.S. help for China to stave off disaster. One day last week Mme. Chiang, back in the U.S. from Formosa for medical checkups, went to Ann Arbor to accept an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Michigan, there delivered another timely warning that had fateful undertones. Its net: because of too much intellectual handwringing over the horrors of modern war, "freedom and the values of human dignity, which we were taught to cherish above all else, have begun to be secondary to biological survival...
...America, Christianity faces the danger of becoming a utilitarian faith, a faith that is practiced for the sake of getting something here and now," said Yale University's H. Richard Niebuhr, professor of theology, in a lecture at the University of Michigan. A utilitarian faith, declared Theologian Niebuhr (brother of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr), is "the kind that says it is a good thing to believe in God because it will make you prosperous. A utilitarian faith takes the form of mental health. It allays anxiety. It makes you feel as you feel when you've had a good...
...notorious Milton began his career innocuously enough. Born in upstate New York on July 19, 1830, he taught school in Michigan, later practiced law in Illinois. An early Lincoln partisan (his younger brother John worked in the Lincoln-Herndon law office in Springfield), Milton reputedly hoisted Honest Abe onto the crowd's shoulders at one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, while The Rail Splitter protested: "Don't. Don't. This is ridiculous." After captaining one of the quasi-military Republican abolitionist outfits known as the "Wide Awakes," Milton marched away to the Civil War as a volunteer...
...firm against Adams. Bill Knowland, facing heavy Democratic odds in his California gubernatorial campaign, said that the President and Adams "should carefully weigh as to whether Adams has so hurt his usefulness that it might be harmful." New Jersey's Robert Kean, Arizona's Barry Goldwater and Michigan's Charles Potter pounded the same drum: dump Sherman. Utah's venerable (72) Senator Arthur Watkins was the strongest voice of all. "In the light of the record as measured by the high standards of ethics set by both the President and Mr. Adams," said he, "there seems...
...Eighth Circuit in St. Louis. Meanwhile, the N.A.A.C.P. asked Judge Lemley for a stay of execution to allow the remaining seven of the original nine Negro students at Central High (one girl was expelled last February, studied in New York City; one boy graduated last fortnight, is entering Michigan State University) to stay on at Central High next September and thereafter until the final word from...