Word: evanston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestant and Orthodox churches. At Amsterdam, in 1948, came the greatest gathering of Protestantism since the Reformation, and there, in a historic decision by representatives of 147 communions, the World Council of Churches was formed. This summer the World Council will meet again for its second Assembly in Evanston, Ill.-1,500 delegates and observers from 161 communions and 48 countries...
...Party Press? McCraken got his first newspaper training as a newspaper delivery boy in Evanston, Ill. His father died when he was a child and McCraken worked after school in a wide variety of jobs, such as making handles for caskets and stays for corsets. He started as a part-time reporter in high school in Illinois, worked his way through the University of Wyoming working on the local paper. During World War I, he was an infantry lieutenant, came back and got his first taste of Democratic politics as secretary to the state's Democratic Governor William...
...Kuomintang (National Party) labeled Wu's charges "malicious," and expelled him from the party. ¶ The National Assembly asked the Central government to recall the former governor from Evanston, 111., where he is living in self-imposed exile, to Formosa to stand trial on charges of "maladministration" during his service as Formosa's governor...
...Cavert took a six month leave of absence from his job to help organize the World Council of Churches. Last month he retired from his old job to become U.S. executive secretary of the World Council, just in time to help plan its second assembly next August in Evanston...
...last spring Wu abruptly resigned, went into voluntary political exile in the U.S. For ten months, Wu watched from a modest hotel in Evanston, Ill., lectured in U.S. cities, and kept his silence. Three weeks ago he sat down at his dining-room table and wrote a long, careful letter to the National Assembly meeting in For mosa. Last week, charging that the National regime had suppressed parts of it, Wu published its contents. Said he: "I don't want to wreck the Formosan regime, but it must reform." His theme: to return to the mainland, the Formosa regime...