Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the political storms which have lashed the University of Oregon (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932 et seq.), a lean, -square-jawed educator named Clarence Valentine Boyer bobbed to the top as acting president in January 1934, became full president three months later...
When he went to Washington in 1934 as an Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Eccles' business interests included the presidencies of a $2,000,000 milk product company, a big Oregon lumber concern, a huge construction company, and the $50,000,000 Eccles group of banks. In addition he was vice president of Amalgamated Sugar Co., a director of a railroad, a hotel company, a farm implement company, a retail lumber organization. All this was achieved in less than 20 years from the time he set up Eccles Investment Co. to manage...
...Alfred ("Call Me Dan") Poling is world president of the biggest Protestant youth organization (Christian Endeavor), editor of the most influential U. S. church magazine (Christian Herald), director of the phil anthropic Penney Foundation, a brisk weekly radiorator and ringing champion of Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with the spellbound boy. Aged...
Harvard's trip to the hinterland in 1939 will be its third western football trip, the first having been made in 1920 to defeat Oregon in the Rose Bowl, and the second having been to be vanquished by Michigan at Ann Arbor...
...great financial burden, it is true, but it would be charged, in popular opinion, with having avoided, through technical means, legal liability for what was an undoubted moral duty, and it would darken the way of the Church forever. . . ." Last week Judge Fee handed down his decision, found the Oregon Conference of the Methodist Church liable for $92,000 principal and interest on bonds issued for the Wesleyan Hospital at Marshfield. Ore. Thus in the first Bitting case to be tried, the Methodist Episcopal Church was branded with "having tried, without success, to get out of a just obligation...