Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beecher started Northerners talking about spirituals and about Fisk-the School for freedmen which a Union General, Clinton Bowen Fisk, a Union Chaplain, Erastus Milo Cravath, and a Union schoolteacher, one John Ogden, established after the War in the Union Barracks at Nashville. Erastus Cravath, its first president and father of famed Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them...
...Little Four-Brown & Williamson, Axton-Fisher, Larus & Brother, Continental Tobacco-makers of non-advertised 10?-a-pack brands. The Big Four used to make 90% of all U. S. cigarets and Lucky Strike's George Washington Hill, Camel's Samuel Clay Williams, Chesterfield's Clinton W. Toms, Old Gold's Benjamin L. Belt thought the future was fine and blue (TIME, Oct. 31). Now the Little Four with their Wings, Paul Jones, Twenty Grand, White Rolls sell one out of every five U. S. cigarets. And added to the troubles of Messrs. Hill, Williams, Toms & Belt...
...Inglis Lecture for 1933 will be delivered by Henry Clinton Morrison, Professor of Education at the University of Chicago. The lecture, which is open to the public free of charge, will be held on Friday. January 13, at 8 0'clock in Emerson D. The title of Dr, Morrison's address is "The Evolving Common School...
Died. Frank Clinton Smythe, 59, night watchman at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania R. R. station. Princeton 1894 valedictorian, able civil engineer who chose watchman work instead of unemployment; of injuries when beaten by unidentified hoodlums while on duty; in Philadelphia. Said Mrs. Smythe, cousin of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam: "We are proud...
Rise. Fourteen months ago 90% of the cigarets sold in the U. S. retailed for 15? a package. Tobacco was cheap, cigaret smoking was at its peak. The future looked fine and smoky to Tycoons George Washington (Lucky Strike) Hill, Samuel Clay (Camel) Williams, Clinton W. (Chesterfield) Toms and Benjamin L. (Old Gold) Belt. Acting in concert (though legally disassociated since American Tobacco Co.'s trust was dissolved) they had just upped the wholesale price of their cigarets from $6.40 to $6.85 per thousand (presumably on the strength of the new Cellophane wrapping). Then, all unknown to Messrs. Hill...