Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert of the New York Evening Post, one objection to the presidential candidacy of Herbert Clark Hoover has been voiced as follows: "We have never had an engineer in the Presidency and I doubt whether we ought to have an engineer in the Presidency. An engineer is experimental. An engineer always wants to do something...
Prediction. Wrote able Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert of the New York Evening Post: "One of the possibilities ... is Mr. Morrow's promotion to the Secretaryship of State if Secretary Kellogg should retire before the end of President Coolidge's term in office. But in any case Mr. Morrow's appointment opens the way to a public career for him, either in the Cabinet or in higher European diplomatic posts, under this or subsequent Republican administrations...
...Holland Vehicular Tunnel between lower Manhattan and Jersey City (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). On that occasion, gold teeth flashing and freckles getting lost in dimples, the Governors had jocularly pushed and pulled each other across the interstate line. Last week's ceremony on the S. S. De Witt Clinton, anchored at midstream, was to signalize the breaking of ground for the world's longest suspension bridge* -between Fort Washington Park, N. Y., and Fort Lee, N. J. There was no jocular pushing, no pulling; but Democratic Governor Smith pertly warned Republican Senator Walter Evans Edge of Governor Moore...
Calvin Coolidge, U. S. President, will become U. S. Senator from Massachusetts on the expiration of his present term, last week sur- mised one James Morgan, political informer to readers of the Boston Globe. This surmise was refuted by Clinton Gilbert, able Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post, who pointed out that as seats become vacant only in 1929 and in 1931, President Coolidge would either have to run for office while in the White House, or else wait for two years. Said Mr. Gilbert: "John Quincy Adams, by retiring from the Presidency to become a member...
FRANCIS WRIGHT CLINTON...