Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily unionized Michigan, where the G.O.P. was worried, Ike has the edge in spite of the hard, effective precinct work of the CIO United Auto Workers. EUR1 Among the border states, Kentucky, which went to Stevenson by 700 votes in 1952, looks Republican; Maryland may give Ike a bigger edge than it did four years...
...estimated 3,500,000 Negro votes probably will go to Adlai Stevenson again this year. The 75% margin by which he won them in 1952, however, is now expected to be reduced to something like 60%-65%. In states where national or local races are close, e.g., Missouri, California. Michigan, Ohio, New York, such a pro-Republican shift could be all-important...
...East Lansing, Duffy Daugherty's Michigan State held a practice session at the expense of Indiana...
...ease, scored three touchdowns apiece. Final score: Oklahoma 45, Texas o. It was Oklahoma's 33rd consecutive victory, equaling a record set by the Pitt Panthers back in 1919. Elsewhere, collegiate football ran up more than its share of big scores ¶Still smarting from their defeat by Michigan State's Spartans, the University of Michigan's Wolverines took out their anger on the Army, forced the Cadets to fumble eight times and humbled one of the best teams in the East...
Although 38 states have laws banning nonessential Sunday work, the laws in most cases are antiquated, vague, unenforced or unenforceable. In Arkansas, Colorado and Michigan, blue laws have either been ruled unconstitutional or are under appeal. In New York, an accountant who was arrested last January for working on Sunday was acquitted by a judge who pointed out that baseball stadiums and theaters have long violated the Sabbath with impunity. In many cities where Sunday-closing ordinances are enforced, merchants sidestep the law by selling from branches outside city limits. Rather than turn away customers, businessmen in such cities...