Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farmer Takes a Wife (by Frank B. Elser & Marc Connelly; Max Gordon, producer). In 1825 cannons boomed from Albany to Buffalo as Governor De Witt Clinton, on a red and yellow barge, opened the Erie Canal. For 50 years it was the main commercial artery between East and West, the marvel of its time until the railroads came. With much nostalgic tenderness has Walter D. Edmonds (Rome Haul) written of the canal as it approached its decadence. Two able adapters, Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) and Frank B. Elser (Mr. Gilhooley), have preserved for the stage every jot of humor...
...other directors for one year, the following nominations were made: from Harvard at large, Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen; and Alfred C. Redfield '13; from M. I. T. at large, Horace S. Ford and Jasper Whiting; from officers of Harvard, Clinton P. Biddle, professor of investment banking; from alumni of Harvard, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English; from the students of M. I. T., John B. Ballard '35; from the Senior class of Harvard, E. Francis Bowditch; from the Junior class of Harvard, Robert S. Playfair; from the Sophomore class of Harvard, Charles C. Gibson...
...lump lay beneath the scar of an incision made by a Manhattan doctor at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled six years ago. To stitch up a hernia which Warden Lawes had incurred two years before while wrestling at New Orleans with Chaplain Robert Booth of Clinton Prison, the doctor had cleverly taken a strip of muscle from the patient's leg. The rupture incision healed quickly. The leg wound, on the contrary, took three months to close and ever since had given Warden Lawes trouble. Surgeon Sweet recently diagnosed the growth as a tumor which...
...months."-Otto Fischer, Stuttgart banker. "Businessmen of Japan can hope for the economic recovery of their country and of the whole world."-Tsunejiro Miyaoka, Tokyo lawyer. "With the appearance of improvement in international trade, we are optimistic." -Donate Gaminara, Uruguayan engineer. "We in America are on the way out."- Clinton P. Anderson, State treasurer of New Mexico...
...President Dodds last week, "and we'll furnish the boys." Princeton has been getting ready for four years. Its School of Public & International Affairs was launched in 1930, with Harold Dodds as administrative chairman. Its present husky, genial Director is DeWitt Clinton Poole, 48, author of The Conduct of Foreign Relations under Modern Democratic Conditions, which he wrote from long experience as a U. S. diplomat in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Petrograd, Cape Town. An administrative unit, the School embraces the College Departments of Politics, Economics, History and Modern Languages. It has upped enrollment every year, this year reached...