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...knew that Governor Frank Carlson wanted the job himself, but he knew no acceptable way to take it; to make himself a U.S. Senator would be to break a contract with Kansas voters. So for a month Governor Carlson had dillydallied over choosing a successor for the late Senator Clyde Reed. Last week the governor, after sifting through 232 names, finally made his choice. To fill out the remaining 13 months of Clyde Reed's term he appointed Harry Darby, a husky, gregarious son of a boilermaker who built himself into Kansas' No. 1 industrialist...
...Died. Clyde Martin Reed, 78, onetime Kansas governor (1929-31), Republican Senator from Kansas since 1939; of a heart attack and a fall down the stairs; in Parsons, Kans. A onetime Bull Mooser, Reed was the trumpeting publisher of the Parsons Sun, an ardent dry and a crotchety independent. The G.O.P. denied him renomination for governor in 1930. In retaliation he backed a Democrat in the gubernatorial election, failed to support Hoover in 1932, acidly advised Fellow Kansan Alf Landon in 1936 to stay off the radio as much as possible. A rock-ribbed, prewar isolationist, he voted...
...pleased and gratified that you chose to picture a classroom in our Clyde L. Lyon School in Glenview, Ill., as a 1949 model...
Harvard men have been active in the Cambridge city administration in appointed capacities. Gordon M. Fair, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering and Clyde O. Ruggles, professor of Public Utility Management and Regulation, have served several times...
...Senate's inquiries into the activities of Washington five per centers probably will not be resumed this year, Senator Clyde Hoey (D-N.C.) said yesterday. Hoey, who heads the investigating sub-committee, said that only unexpected developments would reopen hearings this year...