Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 28). A hundred feet away from the lawn is the institution's death house, where felons are mortally burned in another fashion. To this dread place, last week, two inmates serving long terms for robbery begged to be sent speedily. These two convicts were known as Clinton ("Cotton") Grate and Hugh Gibbons. They confessed to firing the prison in the hope of effecting a wholesale delivery...
Married. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 24, Earl of Lincoln, onetime drummer in a London jazzband, son &heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, and Mrs. Jean Banks Gimbernat, Manhattan socialite divorced last year in Reno; in Manhattan. In 1902 his father sold the family's most famed possession: the blue Hope diamond, reputed to bring doom upon all who own it (said to have been the property of Queen Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded, it now belongs to the separated Edward Beale McLeans of Washington...
Died. Harry M. Kaiser, 71, strict warden of Clinton state prison, abode of New York State's 1,800 most vicious criminals; at Plattsburg, N. Y.; of paralysis caused by overwork. His wards rioted last July, and ever since have threatened new riot...
Enterprising founder of Air Ads is Sumner Sewall, onetime general traffic manager of Colonial Airways System (now part of American Airways, Inc.). With him is associated Clinton Elliott, whose father as president of Eastern Advertising Co. developed the rapid transit advertising field in New England. Adman Sewall is grandson of the late great Arthur Sewall, shipbuilder of Bath, Maine, and a cousin of beauteous Camilla Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to France. He flew with the celebrated 95th Pursuit Squadron, was officially credited with bringing down seven enemy planes in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives...
...Jerseys on his West Orange, N. J. farm. If it were known how much stock the Nichols family controls, what its relation with other big stockholders has been, the mystery of what went on behind the cloud might be solved. Another executive change occurred last week when Clinton Stephen Lutkins, who left Allied to join the New York Stock Exchange firm of R. W. Pressprich & Co., was recalled to become an Allied director and executive vice president...