Word: mackinac
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Over cookies and coffee with the press in his summer mansion on Mackinac Island, Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams plighted his state's 51 delegate votes to Jack Kennedy for the Democratic nomination. In accepting Michigan's endorsement, Kennedy hoped out loud that a procession of other big-delegate states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois) might be lining up. The Kennedy forces were out to track down every favorite son, boss and delegate, but were finding stiffened resistance despite the Michigan breakthrough...
...Mackinac, Mich. (Special)--David McCord, Norman Hall, editor of the Alumni Bulletin, Daniel S. Cheever, Director of Alumni Affairs, and Florence Kimball, Alumni Recorder, are at historic Mackinac Island, participating in the American Alumni Council's 44th General Conference, June 28 to July...
...annual riot of trading and boozing at the fur company store on Mackinac Island on a June afternoon in 1822, a gun went off accidentally and blasted a gaping hole in the belly of Alexis St. Martin, ig, a French Canadian voyageur. For the rest of his days he had a hole in his abdominal wall leading directly into his stomach. The blast that let the daylight into St. Martin's stomach enabled U.S. Army Surgeon William Beaumont, in years of experiments, to shed the first light on the mysteries of human digestion...
Whether their revolt succeeds or fails, New York's Jake Javits is already issuing the call for a party meeting on domestic issues similar to the 1943 Mackinac Island Conference, at which Republicans set foreign-policy aims. The unrest reaches into the Republican National Committee, which as part of its rebuilding is trying to reach labor leaders disgruntled at the Democrats, has been hampered by recent antilabor broadsides of Postmaster General Summerfield and Commerce Secretary Strauss...
...rapturous cheers of 1,500 well-wishers from 62 countries, ever-beaming Ideologist Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Re-Armament movement, celebrated his 80th birthday by presiding over the gathering of his clan at M.R.A.'s Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer training center. Between speeches of praise from devotees, Buchman pored over laudatory messages from (among others) West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines, and 20 U.S. Senators...