Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Chase Salmon Osborn, 89, author, prospector, philanthropist and onetime progressive Republican Governor of Michigan (1911-12); of pneumonia; in Poulan, Ga. Osborn made a fortune from iron ore discoveries in Canada, Lapland, Africa and Latin America (he gave most of the money to charity), sponsored one of the first workmen's compensation bills in the nation, Michigan's first women's suffrage measure. Two days before his death, he married Stellanova Osborn, 55, his longtime secretary and adopted daughter (after a court dissolved the adoption...
...network board has discovered a commercial station in Michigan that is using the same call letters--WHRV, and it wants to avoid the confusion that might result with two stations using the same letters...
After drafting a statement of its views on academic freedom, the committee empowered its national staff to investigate the recent dismissals of professors from the University of Washington and Oregon State College and the expulsion of student James Zarichny from Michigan State College...
...seventh day of debate the Senate had taken on all the rash-marks of a baby filibuster. But this time the opposition could not muster the votes. At week's end 23 Republicans lined up behind Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg to help 45 Democrats defeat a milder version of the Wherry amendment...
...professors had no reason to worry: the questionnaires were still experimental. But by next year, they would be a major factor in deciding faculty promotions. A bad grade year after year might well lead to dismissal. Did that mean even Michigan's most cherished scholars? Said Dean Lloyd S. Woodburne: "If a man is a brilliant scholar, he must be a passable teacher. If a brilliant teacher, he must be a passable scholar." If he is all of one and none of the other, Michigan will want him no longer...