Word: clyde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Stevens' important results were unexpected and essentially accidental. As one of the many field workers in the Hayden Planetarium-Grace expedition, directed by Dr. Clyde Fisher, of the Hayden Planetarium, New York, Major Stevens was primarily interested in getting high enough to photograph the spectacular course of the moon's shadow as it raced along the earth and cloud tops. His observations were made near Lima, Peru, in a Pan American Grace Airways plane...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt entrained in Washington to attend the celebration of Virginia Dare's 350th birthday. At Roanoke he and North Carolina's Governor Clyde Roark Hoey enjoyed the sight of a New Deal project, a new Fort Raleigh, erected by WPA. Then the President climbed upon a flag-bedecked stage and launched on one of his favorite themes, a modern political parable to a historical incident which he used as a broadsword to slash his political enemies...
...ANNOINTED-Clyde Brion Davis- Farrar & Rinehart...
...Author. Like his aspiring hero Harry Patterson, Clyde Brion Davis "has all his life been trying to unscrew the in-scrutable." Described as having "a vaccination scar on the left arm, a hand grenade scar on the back of the neck, a horse kick on the right shin, a mole on the left cheek," 42-year-old Author Davis has been a steamfitter's helper, chimney sweep, furnace repair man, electrician, detective, a knockabout journalist from Buffalo to Seattle. His hobbies include "spinning members of the W. C. T. U. and D. A. R. in revolving doors," giving fellow...
...longtime potent Tennessee publisher and politician, who was paroled last year after serving 23 months of a six-to-ten year sentence for his part in the $17,000,000 failure of the Asheville Central Bank & Trust Co. (TIME, April 13, 1936); by North Carolina's new Governor Clyde R. Hoey...