Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army Coach Earl Blaik, in addition to his scouting information, has had the advantage of seeing the Michigan system before. His boys managed to eke out a 36 to 7 win over the Maize and Blue in 1946. And that was against the real McCoy...
...states which have no such prohibition: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Washington...
Last week hustling Mrs. Tufty was back at her regular job of covering the capital for 31 papers in Texas, Michigan and New Jersey. The Duchess, as she likes to be called, dashed up to Manhattan, her pincenez dangling wildly at her bosom, for a television gabfest with her good friend Mary Margaret McBride, and Congressman Fred Hartley. Said Tufty later: "Mary Margaret was a little out of her depth with Fred, so I just took over and interviewed him myself...
Twelve years ago Tufty gave up her job as managing editor of Charles G. Dawes's late Evanston (111.) News-Index to go to Washington with her husband, since divorced. Before she left, she drove around Michigan lining up correspondence assignments from small papers...
...arrival of Tufty with 26-count 'em, 26-papers." She trained her staff of cubs to ferret out local angles in the news, peddled her clients a complete line of political stories and personality items, including her own daily columns. She soon had many a bigwig, including Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, eating out of her hand. Two years ago she took on as partner J. Albert Dear, a New Jersey publisher...