Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of California, the undergraduate season last week got off to a turbulent start. As 2,000 undergraduates staged an anti-conscription hubbub outside the college gates, President Robert Gordon Sproul warned his students that when & if conscription was enacted, he would regard further agitation as "interference with national defense," might expel agitators...
...brains behind the technical work are Charles W. Oliphant, '41, Technical Director; Gordon McCouch, '41, Technical Engineer; and Charles W. Davis, '41, Production Engineer. During September they will supervise the installation of the new direct wire system. Freshman are welcomed to watch the technicians at work in order to understand the Network before the competition for positions opens later in the Fall...
...National Scholarship winners are: Philip W. Anderson, Urbana, Illinois; Burton P. Block, Fountain City, Tennessee; William J. Bouwsma, Lincoln, Nebraska; John B. Bowman, Alliance, Ohio; Gordon M. Browne Jr., St. Louis, Missouri; George M. Burditt, Jr., LaGrange, Illinois; John J. Butler, Highwood, Illinois; John E. Corrigan, Jr., Chicago, Illinois; Joseph D. Grandine, Crandon, Wisconsin; Jackson E. Hardy, Santa...
Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies was overcome by emotion as he told the Australian Parliament the story. He paused at one point and covered his face with his hands. Politically, Mr. Menzies' loss of three senior Ministers from his Cabinet laid him wide open to strident Labor demands that the Australian general election, which the Government has tried to postpone on the plea of war emergency, be held in 1940 as it normally would be under the Constitution...
Suave Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop Parker's present successor, is a bachelor. But he has an interest in matters matrimonial-as he showed during Edward VIII's abdication crisis in December 1936. Last week His Grace's Commission on Kindred and Affinity as Impediments to Marriage handed him a report. It recommended that the Church henceforth give its blessing to a man marrying his: father's brother's wife, wife's father's sister, wife's mother's sister, wife's sister, brother's wife, mother's brother...