Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keynote address was given by the Rev. Clinton Wunder, pastor of the $2,000,000 Baptist Temple at Rochester, N. Y., who said...
...about this time that Colonel Mitchell read in the Review of Reviews a character-sketch of himself by Clinton W. Gilbert, famed correspondent of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' newspapers, in which Mr. Gilbert painted 1) the "unseemly spectacle" of an Army general telling, in moments opportune and inopportune, "how he could sink the entire U. S. Navy with one hand" and 2) the "unseemly spectacle" of "conservatism and stupidity charged with the keeping of the walls of safety about our land...
...very evenly matched, with perhaps a slight edge on the side of Yale. The two teams have faced but one common opponent, Andover, who defeated the Crimson by a close score, but were decisively beaten by Yale. Both teams have lost two games, Yale having fallen before Dewitt Clinton and Peddle, while the Crimson succumbed to the attack of Andover and Hebron Academy...
...Senate seat from Illinois), he who, in 1921, was lifted into the Chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee over the seniority rule, because of his businesslike grasp of affairs, gathered his Western and Middlewestern cohorts and advanced on the Speakership. Mr. Madden, as described by the apt pen of Clinton W. Gilbert, "belongs to the line of watchdogs of the Treasury who growl when anyone asks for appropriations. . . . He looks gnarled, like a workingman who has grown rich. And that is what he is-a stonecutter who has become a millionaire." There was another, however, who had already started...
...able correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert explained rather suggestively how she happens to be in charge of prohibition cases: "Now, do you suppose any man having, as all men have, excellent prospects of being later in his career Senator, Cabinet member, President or, at least,Vice-President, would handle those cases? Either the wets or the drys would surely be alienated, and then what would become of his political future? It was inevitably a woman...