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Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Wyoming, New York, Delaware, Nevada-and last week Illinois, by a 4-to-1 landslide, and Indiana, by 2-to-1, voted to ratify the 21st Amendment. Illinois, home State of the W. C. T. U. (at Evanston) had been conceded Wet since its 1931 Repeal referendum. Indiana, home of militantly Dry Senator Arthur Robinson, seat of the Northern Ku Klux Klan and of the Prohibition Party's last national convention, provided the first real test of strength of U. S. Drys, Consolidated...
...Western Conference title last week, with 60½ points to Indiana's 47½had not often been heard of outside the Midwest, except as a member of Michigan's football team. He was Willis Ward, 196-lb. Negro sophomore. At the Big Ten meet in Evanston last week. Willis Ward won the 100-yd. dash in 9.6 sec. He won the high jump, placed second in the broad jump. In the 120-yd. high hurdles, he forced Ohio State's Jack Keller to world's record time of 14.1 sec., finished a close second...
...three daughters and two of his three sons are married. He plays mediocre golf, desultory family bridge, would rather spend an evening reading history or talking international finance with Charles and Henry. He takes his Fair job seriously. Last winter he closed his old remodeled house on suburban Evanston's lakefront. moved into a town apartment to be nearer the Fair. That is why his Daughter Margaret was married in town instead of Evanston last month...
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...towering tall) and his Liberal Bishop Coadjutor William Scarlett were assisted in the sanctuary by Baptists and Methodists. Episcopalians have never since stopped talking about it, arguing it, quoting canon law and rubric. Last week the talk was for the first time public, at an annual Church Congress in Evanston. Ill.-an unofficial, argumentative gathering which lays down no laws but permits high, low and broad churchmen to air their views. Bishop Scarlett defended his intercommunion service, pointing out that Jesus Christ was no sectarian. Leader of the opposing side was another Episcopal Johnson-Colorado's popular, high-church...