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Fred Alger made his biggest political mistake four years ago. During the Republican administration of Governor Kim Sigler, Alger got Soapy appointed to a Democratic vacancy on the bipartisan state liquor control commission. He misjudged Soapy's ebullient New Dealism, his youthful enthusiasm and his common touch as the signs of a willing political amateur. But genial, hard-plugging Soapy traveled the state like no liquor commissioner in history, soon turned a host of liquor dealers into personal friends, and turned his job into a first step on the Michigan political ladder. Kim Sigler's successor as governor...
...were duly referred through channels to the General Services Administration, Department of Buildings Management. Naturally, the situation called for a survey. That called for special equipment. So the matter was referred to the National Bureau of Standards, Division of Research and Development. There a machine was built, and labeled "Sigler Pendulum Impact Type Slipperiness Tester...
...October, during the heat of the Williams-Sigler campaign, the Workers' Education Service issue blew wide open. On October 16, the Board of Regents said that the service would be resumed before the end of the year, retaining those parts of the program "deemed appropriate for the university to offer...
Reuther immediately charged that this "shift" had "killed the service," and that "no amount of double-talk can now conceal the complete submergence of the Board of Regents and Governor Kim Sigler to the General Motors Corporation...
Reuther had connected-Sigler's opposition to the workers' service with purported G. M. contributions to the Governor's campaign fund. Sigler denied this on October 22. The extension program, he added, "is not being given up. It is being changed here and there...