Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army uniform himself. Three years of drab post-Spanish-American War service led him to seek a career elsewhere. Why not be a prison guard? Friends suggested dog-catching instead, but he was serious. He passed the civil service examination, was ordered to report at Clinton Prison at Dannemora, then known as the Siberia of America. After a tedious, solitary trip he found himself one day standing on the deserted railroad platform, surrounded by dense forests, high mountains. The desolate atmosphere made his heart sink. When was the next train out? Luckily for U. S. penology, not until the next...
Eben MacBurney Byers, 51, popular Pittsburgh sportsman and ironmaster, fell out of an upper berth five years ago returning from a Yale-Harvard football game. He hurt his arm. His Pittsburgh physiotherapist, Dr. Charles Clinton Moyar, prescribed a patented drink called ''Radithor." It was distilled water containing traces of radium and mesothorium (another radioactive substance). The dope eased the arm pain, braced Byers up. He enthusiastically recommended it to friends, sent them cases of it, even gave some to one of his horses. Last week Eben Byers died in Manhattan of radium poisoning. His close friend Mrs. Mary F. Hill...
...Williams 1G (K) defeated W. A. Shurcliff 2G (L) 3-2; R. T. Wharton '32 (L) defeated T. L. Cissel 1L (K) 3-0; R. B. Gowan '33 (L) defeated G. C. Homans '32 (K), 3-1; J. C. Gray 2G (L) defeated Clinton Hebberd...
Most newsmen in Washington also believed they knew this keyhole commentator to be Clinton Wallace Gilbert, shrewd, able correspondent of the New York Evening Post. Their belief in his identity was strengthened when earlier this month he used almost identically the same story in a despatch, to his newspaper. Governor Roosevelt was circumstantially placed at last year's Governors' Conference at French Lick, Ind., and in conversation with "a distinguished Middle Western Democrat" (generally supposed to be James Middleton Cox) saying...
...members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There was Boss Tweed's fire engine, Americus No. 6, whose dashboard was decorated with the original Tammany Tiger. There were ship models of every carrier that has plowed the harbor from the Half Moon to the Bremen. Brigadier General Clinton De Witt Falls gave a collection of the uniforms of the old 7th Regiment (the original National Guard), from. 1823 to 1931. Banker Speyer, who lives almost next door, gave a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with the stipulation that he might take it home from time to time...