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Three evenings after the riot in Flint, General Motors' Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen and the Union's President Martin were seated at a table in Lansing with Governor Murphy. Governor Murphy was sitting politically pretty. Not having intervened to oust the sit-downers, he was still considered their friend. Law & order-minded citizens likewise applauded him for his declaration: "Whatever else may happen, there is going to be law and order in Michigan. The public interest and the public safety are paramount. The public authority in Michigan is stronger than either of the parties...
Harold Wilkie is a determined 46-year-old Madison lawyer. Hour after hour for two days he read and debated the 18,000-word bill of particulars that was to oust the best-known State university president in the land. According to Wilkie. Glenn Frank had miserably bungled or sidestepped vital educational problems in conducting the University, had permitted last spring's squabble between Athletic Director Walter Meanwell and Football Coach Clarence Spears to develop into a "public mess," had neglected his University responsibilities for too frequent lecturing outside Wisconsin, writing daily syndicated newspaper articles which had made...
...show his independence, Dr. Frank refused, but four years later, finding Dean Sellery unsympathetic, sought to have the regents oust him. The move, however, was never brought before the board. Making it plain that he did not expect or wish to hold his new job more than a semester, Acting President Sellery called the faculty together, found that the majority felt Glenn Frank had got about what he deserved...
...valid than those set forth by the regents of the university Wednesday morning it may well be assumed that the desire of the state administration to secure a more firm control over the university by the insertion of a more pliable man is the motive prompting the move to oust Frank rather than any action, inaction or failing on his part...
...Conference of Mayors-had gone into action. Headed by Mayor LaGuardia of New York, who has among his constituents nearly 10% of the 2,500,000 people on the WPA payrolls and who forbade his police to obey the local WPAdministrator's request to oust sit-down strikers from WPA offices, a delegation of mayors had invaded Washington, demanded continuation of Relief at November levels, offered to lobby a new Relief appropriation through Congress as soon as it meets in January, sent an indignant wireless to Franklin Roosevelt...