Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retired businessman from Columbus, Ohio, invited two young U. S. artists and the wife of one of them to a game of ping-pong and a round of brandy at the Hotel Mediterraneo in El Terreno. They were all feeling fine when the artist's wife, Mrs. Clinton Benedict Lockwood, heard sounds of a row between the doorman and a drunk. She went to pacify him while the doorman left to get help. He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling...
...with pernicious anemia often roughens up, if the patient absorbs plenty of Vitamin B, said Drs. William Skainline Middleton and Adolph Hutter of Madison, Wis. Eruptions of the soles and palms often are due to infected teeth, tonsils, ulcer or other disease of the digestive tract, observed Dr. George Clinton Andrews Jr. & associates of Manhattan. A normal adult has very nearly 1/20 of an ounce of sand in his lungs. Dr. William Duncan McNatty of Chicago calculated. A coal miner's lungs contain about 1/6 oz., a zinc miner's 2/5 oz., a stone cutter...
...Angeles, fifth city of the U. S., got a new Mayor last week. By a 31,500-ballot majority John Clinton Porter was ousted for Frank Lawrence Shaw. In office since 1929, Mayor Porter won a recall election last year because his opposition consisted of a scattered field of nonentities. But many a Los Angeles citizen was itching to get rid of him because : 1) as a Dry, he had '"disgraced" his city by refusing to drink a wine toast to the U. S. President while junketing in France with other U. S. mayors two years ago (TIME, June...
Hamilton College (Clinton, N. Y.) Arthur Atwood Ballantine LL.D. Frederick Morgan Davenport, onetime New York Representative LL.D...
...weeks Ralph Clinton Holmes was very busy. As president of Texas Co. he called newshawks to his office, told them that illegal production of oil was ruining the oil business, served notice in no uncertain terms that unless States enforced their oil proration laws the industry would do it, that if the industry would not do it, Texas Co. would. A few days later the Texas Railroad Commission upped the production allowance of the vast East Texas oil field from 400,000 bbl. to approximately twice as much. A prompt wire from Mr. Holmes reduced oil prices in that field...