Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action, Byrnes said, because Brownell was frightened by "the high command of the national Democratic Party" and its attacks on the President's do-nothing attitude. In the high command he identified National Chairman Paul Butler, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams. "Goaded" by these Democrats, he said, "the President and Mr. Brownell had to take drastic action in order to hold the voters of these minority groups." Almost to a man, Deep South Democrats leaped to get out of any attitude of compromise...
...football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy, and his most outrageous hunches still have a habit of paying off. Last year he fired the touchdown pass that put Minnesota in front of his former alma mater; he scored twice against Illinois, twice more against Michigan to win back the five gallon Little Brown Jug. Last week against Washington he completed four passes and carried the ball himself for only 38 yds., but before the second team took over, his deft ball-handling had engineered four of the six Gopher touchdowns...
...football settled down for the fall season. Notre Dame began to run up revenge for last year's embarrassing record (two victories, eight losses) by beating powerful Purdue, 12-0. Columbia, long practiced in the art of losing gracefully, upset Ivy League predictions by whipping Brown, 23-20. Michigan State ran out of substitutes while eating up Indiana, 54-0. Texas Christian, riding on the broad shoulders of Halfback Jimmy Shofner, upset Ohio State, 18-14. While Georgia Tech settled for a scoreless tie with S.M.U., Auburn beat Tennessee, 7-0, and moved into the front of the race...
...noticed that your Hoffa profile conveniently ignored the well-known fact in Michigan that good ole Jimmy Hoffa is a power in the Michigan Republican Party...
...Hoffa has played both sides in the past, now is (or was, pre-McClellan) a man of influence among Republican politicians in Michigan's big Wayne County (pop. 2,870,400) on the county and city (Detroit) level...