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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More explosively a reminder this week was a sudden blast against a Roosevelt third term from, of all people, John L. Lewis, chairman of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. At the same time Lewis indicated his personal 1940 choice would be Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler. To many this seemed a political "kiss of death" for Mr. Wheeler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Better Natured | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Charles M. Bliss of Evanston, Illinois, and Evanston High School; Holworthy Hall and chairman of the Red Book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Freshmen Selected For '43 Union Committee; Will Run Class Events, Union Activities | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...selections were made by Kendric N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government and secretary of the Union, and by Langdon P. Marvin '41 and Harvey Taylor '42, Student Council representatives for Freshman affairs. Traditionally the chairman of the Freshman Red Book board, and the captain of the Yardling football team are ex-officio members of the Union Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Freshmen Selected For '43 Union Committee; Will Run Class Events, Union Activities | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...witty, tolerant William Allan Neilson so well that when he retired last June it asked him to help choose his own successor. Last week Dr. Neilson and Smith's trustees together picked another British-born scholar to head the college: Herbert John Davis, a native of Northamptonshire, now chairman of the English department at Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Neilson's Successor | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Judge Thomas Richardson, chairman of Newcastle's Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, rebuked "conchies" assembled before him by fuming: "I'm certain, as sure as I sit here, that if Christ appeared today he would approve of this war." Booed, hissed, Judge Richardson had to clear the court. Later he hemmed: "I was carried away. . . . Some of the statements as to what Christ would do irritated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God This, God That | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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