Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canny old Walter Dill Scott, having raised almost $40,000,000 in 19 years as Northwestern University's president, recently announced that he would go into well-earned retirement next June. Last week the final year of this phenomenal money-raiser was made memorable when, to his surprise, a man whom he scarcely knew dropped into the university's lap one of its biggest single gifts,* $6,735,000. The gift is to establish a Midwest institute of technology comparable to the East's M. I. T., the West's Caltech...
...final standings of the teams were: Michigan, 65; Ohio State, 58; Princeton, 22; Yale, 14; Harvard, Texas, and U. S. C., 8; Northwestern, 4; Columbia, Iowa, and Iowa State, 3; and Illinois, Florida, Kenyon, and F. & M. 2 apiece...
Ventriloquism was never a radio art. It still isn't. But thoroughly part of radio art is Bergen's clever line, for which his alma mater, Northwestern University, in 1937 awarded Charlie the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. An assistance also is the fact that Charlie's person, due to his vast press, is almost as well known to radio listeners as his sage, snide, bored voice. Charlie and Bergen collect $100,000 a year from the sale of dolls, gadgets, silverware and other copies of cocky Charlie...
...hearings, Acting Chairman Hatton W. Sumners, who had borrowed a cough drop from Northwestern Mutual's President Michael J. Cleary, tossed Witness Cleary a new box of cough drops, commenting: "Nobody can say this committee can be bought...
Since the fall of Hankow and Canton last October, fighting in China has remained desultory. Best reason for this has been that the Japanese military could not decide whether to pursue Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Communist allies into the ragged highlands of southwestern and northwestern China (which foreign observers estimate would require another 500,000 men) or to spread out beyond the roads and rivers and really take over the territory the army has only penetrated...