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...young womanhood she spent much time riding horses on her father's ranches. It was her habit to arise at 2 p.m., have breakfast and stay up until dawn of the next day. When she became interested in a young hotel clerk, Edwin Clyde Northen, her father advised him to get into the insurance business and, after they were married, helped him. They had no children, and in recent years Mrs. Northen spent most of the time with her father. Her husband died...
Cash in Question. Senator Bush was also suspicious about large amounts of cash that the Farragut Gardens builders had paid out, called the project's lawyer, Abraham Traub, to the stand to find out who got it. Had any of the cash gone to Clyde L. Powell, former assistant FHA commissioner who resigned last April and has dodged behind the Fifth Amendment to escape testifying? Traub said that none of it had, but he could not explain who had got the money. The committee ordered him to bring in his books, but at week's end both Traub...
...Ervin, appointed only last June to fill the vacancy left by the death of Clyde Hoey, is a graduate of Harvard Law School, but does not know many other graduates because he went through the famed school "backwards." Ervin explained that he was admitted to the North Carolina bar before he decided to go to Harvard. He was in love with a North Carolina girl named Margaret Bell and was afraid a long absence might ruin his romance, so he elected to take only the third-year course. He finished the course, found that Margaret was still true, and began...
Sunday Pilots & Spotters. The credit for Cessna's new planes and its soaring business goes to President Dwane Wallace, who took over in 1934 from his uncle Clyde Cessna (the company's founder). Since its founding in 1927, the company had not made much money. But Wallace, who graduated from Wichita University with a degree in aeronautical engineering, knew how to build a speedy, airworthy plane. His first Cessna Air-master could cruise at 140 m.p.h.; private U.S. flyers bought 212 of them in six years, and Wallace was able to stay in business...
First reluctant witness was Clyde L. Powell, who "resigned" last April as assistant commissioner of FHA. While in his job, said Committee Chairman Homer Capehart. Powell had authorized Federal loan insurance on $6.5 to $7 billion worth of mortgages. The committee wanted to quiz Powell on his gambling losses, which first put the FBI on his trail and led to the housing investigations. Committee Counsel William Simon said that Powell, whose salary was $12,000 a year, had reportedly lost almost that much in one gambling session. Powell, who was appointed in 1934. clammed up tight. But the committee...