Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When young (37) G. Mennen Williams, onetime Princeton oarsman, surprised himself and his fellow Democrats by getting elected governor of Michigan last November, the C.I.O. hurriedly set out to help him run the state. Personable "Soapy" Williams, a New Dealing Grosse Pointe socialite (and an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune) soon had a press secretary handpicked by U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther, and a batch of other officers who had been blessed by the C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Considering that the C.I.O. (530,000 dues-paying members in Michigan) was the biggest group to support him in the campaign...
After teaching Williams the secret grip and tattooing him with the mystic symbol, the C.I.O. set out to bring Michigan's Democratic Party into the lodge, too. This involved rescuing it from the A.F.L. (who controlled the Michigan delegation to the Democratic National Convention) and from jealous old-line party members who showed an unrealistic persistence in demanding space on the political scene...
While Soapy Williams watched from the sidelines (his law partner, Hicks Griffiths, was named to replace Franco), Scholle pulled the strings. All Democratic candidates for the spring elections were hand-picked by the C.I.O. By moving smartly, new Boss Scholle had made the Democratic Party in Michigan a political arm of the C.I.O...
Thus far this season, the freshmen riflemen have beaten Indiana Tech and Michigan State, and have lost to MIT and Navy. They still face competition with Wisconsin, Army, the Merchant Marine Academy, and Oregon State...
Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan, Edward Hebert, Representative from Louisiana, Richard Lee Strout, veteran Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and Allen T. Klots, of the American Bar Association will do the speaking. Mark De Wolfo 28, professor of Law will serve as moderator...