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One George E. Thomas of Chicago refuted the story, circulated by women students at Northwestern University, that longtime President Frances Elizabeth Willard of the W. C. T. U. had once been caught with a half-burned cigaret (TIME, Oct. 5). Mr. Thomas revealed that a group of workmen on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Married. Frances Elkington Wood, daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears. Roebuck & Co.; and Calvin Fentress Jr. of Hubbard Woods, Ill.; by Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island, uncle of the bride; at Highland Park, Ill.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

The name of Frances Elizabeth Willard, longtime (1879-98) president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, is held dear by all teetotalers. She dried up Evanston, Ill. so thoroughly that to this day you have to drive several miles west of town to a row of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Like Any Other Girl | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

At Folkestone, St. Gandhi picked his way through the puddles and clambered into the front seat of an automobile. Careful British police whisked him to London where he arrived in high spirits, flashing his pink gums at the welcoming throngs. He was taken to Kingsley Hall Settlement House, whose fluttering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Landing Gandhi | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

This time Mr. Cohan has chosen to act the role of a mature man-of-the-world who has been keeping a girl (Lee Patrick) for several years. Suddenly Miss Patrick takes up with a young litterateur (Clifford Jones) who infects her with a desire to write, and with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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