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When Methodism's Senior Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, himself a Deauw deserter: Publisher Kenneth DePauw Craven ("Casey") Hogate of the Wall Street Journal and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West met early this month in Manhattan to name Dr. Oxnam's successor, many a DePauw alumnus hoped they would see fit to break precedent, choose a layman. Instead they retired in silence. Last week the committee reassembled in Indianapolis, announced the selection of another Methodist minister. He was Dr. Clyde Everett Wildman, Professor of Old Testament history and religion at Boston University...
...first place, these young officers "deplored the corruption of the age and the flippancy of the public mind"-as does every Japanese Army officer. They thought that Japan's "financial magnates only seek to satisfy their avarice"-and so does every Japanese. The assassins objected to the craven attitude of previous Japanese Cabinets in signing the London Naval Treaty of 1930. This pact the new Japanese Cabinet has now repudiated...
When Harriette left her father she ran off with young Lord Craven to Brighton. A dull, contented young man, Craven was interested only in his experiments with cocoa trees and with his military instructions, constantly expounded both to amuse his young mistress. "It was, in fact," she recalled later, "a dead bore." She did not deceive Craven, although she often thought of it. "How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honorable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked to me of nothing else?" The Honorable Frederick was Craven's closest friend. "I firmly believe," Harriette wrote, "that...
Appearing this week, the June issue of the Law Review will contain four articles by eminent authors. "Ought the Doctrine of Consideration to be Abolished from the Common Law?", by Lord Wright, Master of Rolls, is featured. Leslie Craven, Counsel to the Federal Coordinator of Transportation; Professor Warner Fuller of Duke University Law School, Felix Frankfurter; and Dean Charles E. Clark of Yale Law School complete the list...
...bargain was struck. France agreed not to demand the lifting of existing sanctions against Italy. Britain agreed not to press for an oil embargo-until after the French elections. The League of Nations promptly dropped the entire business with its most craven admission to date...