Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country-club dance committee than the practical female politicos they are. Wearing the choicest congressional chapeaux, six of the nine Democratic women now in the House of Representatives gathered to enjoy hat chats and conversation about legislation. The exuberant lawmakers (left to right): Missouri's Leaner Sullivan, Michigan's Martha Griffiths, Idaho's Grade Pfost, Pennsylvania's Freshman Kathryn Granahan, Oregon's Edith Green, Georgia's Iris Blitch...
...because of an 1872 act that ends the Postmaster General's appointment after one presidential term and one month more, Ike named the onetime Republican national chairman to the job all over again. "Engine Charlie" Wilson spoke for himself. Returning to his desk after a holiday visit to Michigan, he told newsmen he expected to remain in the Cabinet until the defense budget has been approved by Congress next spring or summer. But he added: "I might change my mind, of course. A man never knows what is going to happen to him these days...
...summer of 1955, they were well aware that the university needed a face lifting. Though it had long been doing a competent job, it was, in comparison with other U.S. campuses, a mediocre place in danger of stagnation. Restless and indefatigable, Litchfield taught political science at the University of Michigan, at 33 became General Lucius Clay's civil-administration director in Germany. Later, he took over the Governmental Affairs Institute, a nonprofit research organization, and as a dean at Cornell University, he made the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration one of the most flourishing institutions...
...results bode something for the new year: the Crimson squad finished eighth or ninth in a field of 35 colleges, including victorious Pitt, Michigan, and Ohio State. Pickett's was the only Ivy team in the tournament...
...David W. Baad, 22, graduate student in Far Eastern studies at the University of Michigan. Son of a high-school principal, he last year edited the Michigan Daily, was vice president of his class...