Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman took some personal fury to the floor. He waved a copy of the Kalamazoo Gazette, which quoted Michigan's Democratic John Lesinski as saying that "Hoffman is a pimp of Joe Stalin." Hoffman complained for 40 minutes before Lesinski got a word...
When he did, Hoffman was hardly mollified. What he had said, Lesinski explained, was merely that Hoffman "had no more authority than a rabbit" to act as a one-man committee to investigate labor trouble in Michigan. To this Lesinski had added: "That to me is what Mr. Hitler tried to do to the unions in Germany . . . And Mr. Hitler was a pimp of Joe Stalin, a prostitute...
Mike was a man full of surprises. When he ran against oldtime G.O.P. Sheriff Martin Pratt last November (slogan: "A G.I. Who Believes in Democracy"), he said he was 30, had played football at the University of Michigan, and had served 6½ years in the Marines. After Mike won, a checkup showed that he was 27, that he never went to the University of Michigan, and that he served only 23 months in the Marines. "I didn't mean anything wrong." Mike explained. "It was just one of those things in a campaign. I just needed some real...
Spills & Falls. Motormaker Wilson is a cattle breeder (Ayrshires), and at Windrow Farms, 20 miles from Longmeadow, has the largest private herd in Michigan. He used to play a fast game of tennis, still fishes and hunts occasionally, and is a good swimmer. He gave up ice skating after breaking his hip in a fall, and reluctantly gave up riding to hounds with the Bloomfield Open Hunt after breaking his shoulder in a spill from a balky hunter...
...minor sports, then, are hardly the only victims of the present system, which not even Yale uses anymore; and if a minor-sports athlete is breaking all sorts of records, the chances are that he will win one of the League championships and automatically win a major H. The Michigan system which you think should be embraced makes no major-minor distinction. How many old grads, or under-grads, would passively accept a change involving awarding major letters to all Harvard athletes, ranging from yachtsmen to polo players...