Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago revolted. When Director Cummings marshaled the Jones forces for the first ballot, he found that instead of the five he needed, he had only four. The missing vote was vacationing in Florida. When Cummings offered a proxy for Schram, acting President Clifford S. Young, himself the and-Jones candidate for the job, declared it no election. At this point, the news leaked out to a Chicago Tribune reporter, who rushed it into print. Angry telegrams began burning up the wires to FRB in Washington, begging them to call off RFC's dogs. There was so much talk that...
...Jones hand was played out. At week's end, his votes joined the bankers' and elected Clifford Young. However Arkansas may go in 1944, Illinois was not so safe for Jones as it had seemed...
...America, is much greater. Such is our choice. Let us accept this war as our own. Let us, the United States of America, formally declare war on Nazi Germany and the other members of Hitler's Unholy Alliance. W. Milbank Pillsbury '42, Stanwood Kenyon '43, Alan F. Clifford...
From the day he got his feathers Gimpy was a superior bird. Master Sgt. Clifford Algy Poutre, the lean, leathery boss pigeon man at the Signal Corps pigeon lofts on the Jersey flats at Fort Monmouth, liked to say that the Army would hear from Gimpy some day. His breed was right. His father, old red Kaiser, captured in a German trench in the Argonne, is still the oldest military pigeon in the business (24 last month), and his Scotland-hatched mother had good blood...
Quite a different tone had the voice of business issuing from the Committee on Manufacture of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. In a report over which Chairman Clifford S. Anderson of the Norton Manufacturing Co. (grinding wheels) of Worcester, Mass., and 19 colleagues had pondered for a week, the committee announced...