Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from a lavish use of color the rest of the pictures from prisons had little in common. Many were copied from postcards, magazine covers, old masters. The best had a primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks...
...KARL CLINTON Syracuse...
Sharp, frequent and dramatic have been the family fights within Texas Corp., biggest independent oil company in the U. S. But nothing ever emerged for public inspection from Texaco's battle-torn board room until last autumn when Ralph Clinton Holmes, ousted as the company's chairman, gave Texaco's stockholders a flashback of internal tussles (TIME, Oct. 2). Mr. Holmes's heaviest fire was directed at John H. ("Jack") Lapham, chairman of the executive committee and one of three representatives of the Lapham family, whose meddling, said Mr. Holmes, always brought on unhappy boardroom scenes...
...entire scheme . . . must be revamped. ... To this day we're teaching boys to be wood-workers. But are we training them to be steelworkers or experts in the fields of refrigeration, neon lighting, ultraviolet rays? We are not. Johnny Jones: Our schools today are enormous. In the DeWitt Clinton High School, for example, there are about 11,000 pupils. In that mass of youngsters we've got to get hold of Johnny Jones and fit him for his world and for his time...
...Milwaukee State Teachers College one day last fortnight Professor John Clinton Lazenby waited until all 53 young men & women in his course in secondary education were seated. Then he rose and quietly announced that three-fourths of them were cheaters. He had discovered it by comparing their answers to a recent examination with a set of "key" answers. There would be. snapped the professor, a re-examination next...