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Northwestern University (Evanston Ill.) President Arthur Cutts Willard of the University of Illinois.... LL.D. Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes.... LL.D...
...University of Illinois team: the Western Conference ("Big Ten") track and field championship at Evanston, Ill. Illinois took 45 points (29 of them in the 100-yd., 220-yd. and shot-put events); Indiana, 40 3/5; Michigan...
...Evanston, Ill. met 250 C. & C. secretaries, State superintendents, mission board members, committee men and women. Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, general secretary, told them how income had gone down, how all the churches seemed prostrate with a "spirit of defeatism." The delegates voted to start a coin-box campaign for "a penny-a-meal-for-missions." But raising money, no matter how much needed, by helping businessmen sell their products, they could not go. The C. & C. church club women voted their protest against "exploitation of the women of the churches" by the Goodwin Plan or any other...
Most of the secular Press has ignored the Goodwin Plan. But the church Press has been explanatory and denunciatory, with the liberal Christian Century the most vigilant. Seizing upon the list of churchmen who endorsed the Goodwin Plan, the Christian Century got Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston and Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman of Manhattan, both famed Methodists, to recant. Not to be shamed out of their support for this temple & trade hookup, however, were Episcopal Bishops George Craig Stewart (Chicago) and James Matthew Maxon (Tennessee); Methodist Bishops Francis John McConnell (New York) and Ernest Lynn Waldorf (Chicago...
...atmosphere of the Midwest, of the lusty young automobile industry, of money still too young to beget staid offspring, but not too young to sow a few wild oats. He himself, now three years short of 50, was 27 years ago a boy from Chicago's outskirt, Evanston, just beginning his financial apprenticeship with N. W. Harris & Co. Six years ago he stepped out of Harris Trust & Savings Bank to carry the banner of finance to the City of Automobiles, to the Land-Where-Things-Were-Done-in-a-Big Way. Help, On the first day of his session...