Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swimming he has the privilege of canoeing on the Hudson or swimming in Delafield Pond, a beautiful little artificial pool nestling in an arm of the rolling hills above the Plain. It the cadet is lazy he may take a red comforter, compose himself in the shade of Ft. Clinton parapet, and sleep the afternoon away...
...Carl Clinton Van Doren '07, literary critic, editor of the Literary Guild, lecturer on American literature in Columbia University...
Among the most interesting utterances on the Day of Prayer was that of Dr. Robert Russell Wicks, Dean of Princeton University Chapel, who addressed the students at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. Said he: "Not because we want Communism, but rather because we do not want it, we Americans must change completely our economic system. It is amazing how many people blindly assume that this capitalistic commercialism of ours is as ancient and abiding as the very order of nature. . . .* Sanctioned by industrial practice, justified by philosophy, obsessed by so-called religion, this world-wide selfishness is cataclysmic. . . . Our absorption...
...Robert Clinton Holmes, president of Texas Corp., objected by saying that such regulation of refinery runs would lead to "almost insurmountable technical and legal difficulties." As a reprimand to Standard of New Jersey, Mr. Holmes went on: "We believe that the general spirit of cooperation within the industry that was and is followed by producers should have influenced the principal purchasing companies to attempt to maintain crude prices until the cooperative movement had received every possible opportunity of succeeding...
Charles T. Davis of Brooklyn, "World's Richest Convict," finished an eight-year sentence for murder at Dannemora Prison (Clinton, N. Y.). With $1,250,000 in travelers' checks, he left in a private car for California. During his imprisonment, caused by his killing a detective, his surgical supply business was sold for $2,500,000, part of which was turned over to his wife, from whom he has separated...