Word: murfin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president, Michigan University closed her doors without having named a successor to the late Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, her dead President (TIME, Mar. 2). Never were the educational woods so full of likely timber, yet there was only one rumor of a marked man. That came from James O. Murfin, a regent of the University, and was perhaps more than a rumor. At a Michigan convention, held, last week, at Detroit, Mr. Murfin invited those present to embody in the form of a resolution their sentiments towards Samuel Emory Thomason, '04, Chicago lawyer, Vice President of the Chicago Tribune...
...Dome Lease," you are referring to a political episode that arose long: after he had ceased to have any connection with public life. In the interest of fair play, may I ask you to make a suitable correction at your earliest convenience to this grossly erroneous paragraph ? JAMES O. MURFIN. Everyone knows that Mr. Newberry resigned from the Senate. Instead of "driven," TIME should perhaps have used "driven to resign." The facts are as Mr. Murfin states them. Mr. Murfin all but says that Mr. Newberry was driven to resign by the atmosphere with which he was surrounded...