Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upset in their last game, 40-28, by Indiana's erratic team, Ohio was forced to share with Northwestern the Big Ten championship after most observers had practically conceded them the title...
...life insurance companies have invested in U. S. farm mortgages, $455,834,078 was sunk into the black soil of Iowa. Iowa farm mortgage holdings of the principal life insurance companies: Equitable of New York, $90,040,095; Metropolitan, $64,422,538; Equitable of Iowa, $50,098,679; Northwestern Mutual, $40,809,401; Bankers of Iowa, $35,130,952; Mutual Benefit, $34,859,529; John Hancock, $33,251,749; Prudential, $26,059,391; Aetna...
...conditions wouldn't be what they are. But in times of prosperity no one will listen to a professor because he isn't prosperous. In times of Depression he's told that he's rocking the boat if he talks." Dean Ralph Emerson Heilman of Northwestern nodded: "Surely. Some professors are meddlers and busybodies, just as some financiers are crooks...
...last week broke a precedent. Postmaster General Brown made public the names of seven citizens to whom the use of the mails would be denied because they had accepted "donations" from hopeful aspirants to the Drake fortune. Oddly enough, 100 letters at once reached the Post Office Department from Northwestern farmers protesting the issuance of the order. The Department calculated that from them and their ilk, $1,300,000 had been bled by Drake racketeers. "There has never been any record," said Solicitor Horace J. Donnelly, turning over his evidence to the Department of Justice, "of any unsettled or undistributed...
Last week the student council of Northwestern University reported unfavorably on a proposal to embrace the honor system. Midwestern students are not yet ready for it, said Councilman Hollis Peck, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "They're a motley crew, without the faintest notion of what honor is in respect to school work. At the University of Virginia the student body follows the honor system successfully, for Virginians are born gentlemen. Princeton and other eastern schools also have students of integrity who respect the honor system...