Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Firm and factual is most Essary correspondence. He lacks the colorful readability of Arthur Krock (New York Times) or Clinton Wallace Gilbert (New York Evening Post) but his touch is lighter than that of Leroy Tudor Vernon (Chicago Daily News) or George Gould Lincoln (Washington Evening Star). Thoroughly experienced in national politics, he sometimes gives routine stories a special twist to lift them out of the obvious. Unlike his Sim colleague Frank Richardson Kent, he has no sharp sting in his pen. He specializes on complex railroad merger stories, leaves foreign affairs mostly to his smart assistant. Drew Pearson...
...Prohibition Party's keynote was delivered by Clinton Norman Howard, old-time Dry lecturer of Rochester, N. Y. Excerpts : "The Republican liquor plank . . . is the most stupendous, titanic, colossal, calamitous, crimson, conscienceless, barbaric and cataclysmic fraud ever perpetrated upon the American people. . The Democratic plank is perforated with corkscrews and bungholes. ... If the Democratic party wins, the 18th Amendment is doomed and damned. ... If the Dry Democrats of the South rejected Alfred E. Smith, as they said, not on account of his religion but because he was Wet, how can they support the ticket now with both candidate...
Cartoonist Robert L. Ripley's nationa "Believe It or Not" contest was won by Brooklyn's Clinton W. Blume with a proved story of losing an initialed scrubbing brush in 1918 near the coast of France, finding it a year later in the surf at Manhattan Beach where he was a life guard...
Although a sketchy summary of years of prison experiences, the book may be divided clearly into three sections. The first hundred pages deal graphically with the reactions of the rookie guard to the silent system in force at Clinton and Auburn, and with his promotion and outstanding success as overseer at the New York City Reformatory. In these early days, Lawes was quick to see the faults of a system which, enforcing obedience by oppressive silence and solitary confinement, produced only curses and sent men shuffling, "lockstepping their way back to life." Then in rapid anecdotal succession follows the fascinating...
...softly and carry a big stick," were his first instructions, for the inmates were desperate men, and their treatment was desperate too. Total silence was enforced, the work-gang shuffled from & back to their cells. But it was from these same creatures who once were men, Old Chappleau at Clinton, and Mike the Rat Catcher later on, that Warden Lawes learned new penological lessons behind the parallel bars...