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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...National Scholarships and the Tercentenary and all other claims of Harvard to international fame, there are yet certain sections of this country to which the name of Harvard is merely a name. Witness the caption beneath a picture of one of our athletes in the "Wyoming Times" published in Evanston (in the state of Wyoming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...McGoverns, finding Peiping too tame, frequented the fighting front. In one expedition they made with six newspaper correspondents, the five men and three women spent a sleepless night in one bed while dogs devouring Chinese corpses howled outside their hut. When he returned to Evanston, Bill McGovern predicted Japan would conquer and control all China within two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Traveling Man | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...wrote a book on Japanese grammar, speaks twelve languages, is said to know more about John Galsworthy than the university's English department. Once University of Michigan's famed Pundit Jesse Siddall Reeves, fresh from a survey of the South American Chaco affair, went to lunch in Evanston's University Club, was soon questioning Bill McGovern for further in formation. Bill McGovern is now busy teaching Chinese to his four-year-old son. A friend gave him a bottle of Napoleon brandy, to be opened when the boy could read a page of Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Traveling Man | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...House-its 90 Republican minority- than Majority Leader Rayburn has with his unruly Democratic majority had been made apparent on the very first day of the Special Session. To a request for adjournment for three days, which needed unanimous consent to be effective, an obscure Republican from Evanston, Ill. had objected on the grounds that "Congress should get down to work." By a minority of one, Representative Ralph Edwin Church thus forced the House to meet the following three days of its first week, despite the fact that, with no farm, tax, wage & hour, reorganization or regional planning bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slow Motion | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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