Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suits Are for Practice. Shirley May once swam 33 miles in Michigan's Lake St. Clair in 24½ hours. Last year she wound up tenth in the twelve-mile Lake George race, and since she was the only woman who ever finished that grueling event, she was given a trophy. Three weeks ago, as a warm-up for the Channel, she swam 14 miles from Manhattan's Battery to Coney Island, going a mile or more out of her way to avoid dirty water from a sewer...
...time of more clouds than sunshine; Michigan was the storm center of labor's worst squalls. 'Auto workers, fighting for union recognition, staged the great sit-down strikes. For six weeks the gentle, violence-hating Murphy sat by and refused to throw them out by force, finally settled the dispute by mediation. Michigan declined to re-elect him. But Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Attorney General...
When the court recessed for the summer, Frank Murphy went home to Michigan. There, one day last week in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, night closed over the career of the apostle of the dew and the dawn. Stricken by coronary thrombosis, Frank Murphy, 59, died in his sleep...
Died. Frank Murphy, 59, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (since 1940), onetime governor of Michigan (1937-39)l of coronary thrombosis; in Detroit (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Operation Trusty. In Michigan City, Ind., Trusties Walter Gump and Leo Stumbaugh, stopped while walking out of the Indiana State Prison, admitted that they did it frequently, had used their time off to hold up a store for $4,145 and buy a Buick coupe, which they kept in the prison parking lot when it was not being used either for joyrides or for getaway purposes in other holdups...