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Eleven fighting Deacons smashed through a six-point half-time handicap Thursday afternoon to down Winthrop 12 to 6, and walked off with the 1936 House football title. They will meet the champion team among the Yale colleges later this month, to decide the House-College supremacy...
...defendant was Philadelphia's Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, who for months had been volubly telling how Presbyterian Modernists were persecuting him and other Presbyterian "Bible-believers" (TIME, Dec. 31). The indictment, brought against him by the New Brunswick Presbytery which still claims his allegiance, was a six-point elaboration of the fact that he had defied his Church's orders to resign from the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. The trial was limited by the Book of Discipline to one session every ten days. That it was even held publicly was a concession to Dr. Machen...
...distributing station. They stayed closed, their activities were transferred to Manhattan. The Hartford family who own A. & P. almost as securely as Henry Ford owns his business, are equally capable of taking drastic action. While the National Labor Relations Board summoned them and the unions to Washington, with a six-point peace plan offered by the Cleveland Regional Labor Board up for discussion, packers were already at work preparing the goods in A. & P.'s Cleveland warehouses for shipment to other cities...
Stations across the county border did a boomtime business. The city hastily set up four emergency stations for doctors, nurses, food delivery. When the labor policy board of the Petroleum Administration failed to get the companies to agree to its proposals, Secretary Ickes stepped in with a six-point program providing for arbitration. This time the companies accepted but the unions postponed decision, awaiting clarification of the Ickes proposals on wages and union recognition. At the week's end the four city-operated stations were Cleveland's only source of supply...
...With a six-point lead Navy had to fight Penn every inch of the way through a helter-skelter game in which players stumbled with the ball, fumbled at critical moments, crashed into each other. In the last minutes of play Navy intercepted a Penn pass for a second touchdown, null Northwestern's Halfback Leeper showed bad judgment when he picked up an Ohio State punt instead of letting it roll across his own goal line. He was tackled hard. He fumbled. Ohio State's Quarterback Pincura fell on the ball for a touchdown. In the next period...