Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notre Dame thrashed Northwestern 21 to 0. On the first kickoff, George Melinkovich made the longest run of the week, 98 yd. for a touchdown. Added misfortune for Northwestern was what happened to its amiable, hard-plunging halfback. Ernest ("Pug") Rentner; he broke a rib in the first quarter, found out about it at the half. McGuire of Wisconsin caught the kick-off and scuttled 85 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota tied the score. Wisconsin got -another touchdown. Minnesota matched...
...Minneapolis, Northwestern's Right Halfback Pug Rentner ran into Minnesota's Left Halfback Pug Lund, who passed to Tenner for a touchdown...
...seems inevitable that Calvin Coolidge must some day become president of a great life insurance company. For four months it looked as if the company would be Northwestern Mutual, whose trustees began trying in June to agree on a successor to the late President William Duncan Van Dyke, who died June 7. Last week with a message in his hand a trustee left the board room on the fifth floor of Northwestern's marble headquarters in Milwaukee. Instead of going out to a telegraph office he walked down a single flight of broad stairs, down a long corridor...
...banks, fussed with insurance, then got into politics. Governor Emanuel L. Philipp made him his counsel, then Wisconsin's insurance commissioner. He heckled the insurance companies enough to make them agree to the regulations now enforced, smiled enough to keep in the good graces of the companies. Northwestern made him a vice president in 1919. He is big, hearty, broad-shouldered, a nailer for work. Insurance people predict that under him Northwestern's shiny marble tomb will lose some of its historic chilliness...
...Northwestern Mutual was founded by a rawboned old adventurer who never became its president. In Catskill, N. Y., in the 1840's lived a maker of invalid chairs who called himself General John C. Johnston. Soon after Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York was organized he got a job with it, placed his chair near the office door, never let a prospect by. In 1857 he gathered together the 36 trustees required to start a life insurance company in Wisconsin. By the time he had collected the $200,000 needed to begin operations the trustees had decided they...