Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned the accident himself, and used his own car to stage it. He had arranged for someone to drive, and for someone else to get hit. He had even sent out an ambulance to pick up the victim. His Honor, Professor Charles W. Joiner of the University of Michigan's law school, thought he had found a perfect way to get a practical lesson into his students' mock courtroom trials...
...Ottawa Indians of Michigan gathered on a bluff, pounded their tom-toms, and made Dwight D. Eisenhower an honorary member, in absentia...
Next day 34-year-old John Gates, editor of the Daily Worker, surrendered in Manhattan. Carl Winter, chairman of the C.P.'s Michigan committee, was picked up in Detroit. Russian-born Irving Potash, chairman of the New York Joint Board of the C.I.O.'s Fur & Leather Workers Union, hustled back from vacation to turn himself in. Still unaccounted for this week: Gilbert Green, the party's leader in Illinois; Robert Thompson, New York State C.P. chairman; Gus Hall, leader of the party's Ohio wing...
...aggressive partisan politics, but was it good for the nation? There was grave danger that the whole session would bog down in futile political wrangling. Said Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg: "No good can come to the country from a special session of Congress which obviously stems solely from political motives." The greatest danger was that the world would misconstrue a purely domestic fight as evidence of fundamental disagreement over U.S. policies abroad...
...Parson, who had won 37 straight, but was out of the trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...