Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CLINTON GARDNER Weld...
...Clinton Russell, totally blind Duluth businessman: an 18-hole golf match against W. H. J. Oxenham, totally blind London osteopath; 6 & 5; before 10,000 spectators at the Ridgeview Golf Club. Mr. Russell's home course; at Duluth. Both golfers took up the game after losing their sight, usually play in the 80s, have their caddies place the club head in the proper direction, describe the lie and distance. In last week's match, disturbed by whisperings and camera clicks, Mr. Russell took 56 for the first nine holes, Dr. Oxenham...
Alben Barkley was a tobacco farmer's son, a field worker until he was old enough to go to Marvin College at Clinton. He later put himself through Emory College (Georgia) and the University of Virginia Law School. He got his first job in the law office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop whom Paducah's Irvin Cobb immortalized as "Judge Priest." Slow of mind and body, but powerful and persistent, in his career from there up to Majority Leader he had only two lucky breaks: he voted to seat Franklin Roosevelt as a delegate...
Concretely, P. I.'s interpretation of "the advertiser system" has meant consistent advocacy of higher wages as a means of maintaining purchasing power. Most enthusiastic proponent of this view is tall, alert Clinton Roy Dickinson, president of Printers' Ink Publishing Co., Inc., author of two books and numerous short stories. In 1921 Author Dickinson served as a member of the unemployment conference called by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, was the lone supporter of the late A. F. of L. President Samuel Gompers in a minority report opposing wage reductions. Publisher Dickinson believes he would not be alone...
...Authority's administrator, Franklin Roosevelt appointed friendly, hard-working Career Man Clinton M. Hester, counsel to the Treasury Department and a frequent advocate of the Act during Congressional hearings. Born 43 years ago in Des Moines, Iowa, he has spent 20 years in Federal service, studying law at Georgetown while a Government clerk. His new job: to execute the Authority's orders...