Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost ignored in the turmoil over the Soviet-U.S. exchange of notes was a document that might prove the most important of the week. It was a "working paper" submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. It was the bipartisan blueprint for U.S. security...
...Gallup poll last week reported that he had jumped to third position (behind Stassen and Dewey) in popularity with G.O.P. voters; only Vandenberg and Stassen had gained in the last month. The poll also showed that the Michigan Senator would give President Harry Truman a worse drubbing now than he would have a month ago. Said a southern Senator: "Against Truman, Vandenberg would carry several states of the deep South. He is the one man who would make voting Republican respectable down there...
...known mock conventions Vandenberg has won 13-at Harvard, Washingtion & Lee, Washington University (St. Louis), Notre Dame, Marquette, Oberlin, Wooster, Case (Cleveland), Centre (Ky.), Kalamazoo, Northern Michigan College of Education, Augustana (Ill.) and Lindenwood (Mo.), Stassen was the choice at University of Pennsylvania, Miami (Ohio) and Russell Sage Dewey won at Hiram (Ohio...
...made vividly exciting by the use of such standard Hollywood gimmicks as the sliding panels, the catacombs beneath the embassy, the Mata Hari girls, and a big, fat, replusive character for the villain. (It should be pointed out too, that the actor playing Gouzenko is clearly a Michigan boy and is clearly the one to be rooting for. The cards, you see have been stacked in Hollywood...
...practice, Boston said that he definitely would not scout Harvard for the October 16 Army game, as that is a "matter of coaching ethics." "What information I picked up at Spring practice will not be compromised." He added that Blaik had agreed, pointing out that Army has played the Michigan system twice anyway...