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...Alexis St. Martin, a French-Canadian voyageur, took a shotgun blast in the abdomen at Fort Mackinac in 1822, but his life was saved by Army Surgeon William Beaumont. A small opening in St. Martin's abdominal wall and stomach remained, and through it, over many years, Beaumont made hundreds of observations on stomach functions...
...international relations, Dulles in the '305 became the Presbyterians' No. 1 layman. He carried his convictions to the Protestants' Federal Council of Churches, was made chairman of the council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace. At the famed Mackinac Conference of 1943, where the Republican leadership as a group turned from isolationism, Dulles first met Fellow Republican Arthur Vandenberg. On Vandenberg's recommendation, Franklin Roosevelt in 1945 sent Dulles as a delegate to the San Francisco founding session of the United Nations, where his special contribution was a formula...
...were planning the expensive makeshift of shipping by rail from Minnesota's Mesabi range. The coal strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would cut their needs if it lasted long enough. But steelmen kept their fingers crossed on that, as the Mackinaw steamed north to smash through the Straits of Mackinac, and later...
...world shrinking under the mechanized wonders of the war. He was the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee and as such assumed a burden of responsibility; he held earnest conversations with Cordell Hull. Then came the unprecedented policy meeting of Republican leaders held in September 1943, at Mackinac Island, Mich. At that conference Vandenberg produced the word "participation," which expressed the determination of the great majority of Republican Party leaders to stay in world affairs after...
...enough city marksmen were getting their deer to keep a steady stream of autos roll back from Maine and Michigan with carcasses slung over the fenders. The day before the Michigan season opened, an eight-mile line of autos waited to get on the ferry at the Straits of Mackinac, to head for such choice spots as Turtle Lake Twenty Acres Domain. The weather had been too mild for ideal hunting ; there was little tracking snow and the leaves were noisy. But there was so much venison on the hoof that a record 90,000 bucks had killed in Michigan...