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...newsworthy event. He realized, too, that any attempt to take political advantage of that circumstance would react sharply against him. Day before the meeting it was announced that he would not seek to commit his conferees to any statement of policy. Sternly rejected was a proposal by Democratic Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa to trot the President out for a bow and a speech at the State Fair while Governor Landon lolled in his hotel. Instead, President Roosevelt ordered himself treated as non-politically as Governor Landon planned to be. Des Moines was stripped clean of campaign posters, signs...
...great new gold vein in its lap was the fond hope of the West last week.* Whatever it was, the Jumbo Mine, in the Awakening district of Nevada's Slumbering Hills made headlines from San Francisco to Manhattan. Discoverers were two old prospectors, "Red" Staggs and Clyde Taylor, who spied the yellow flecks on the frozen ground of this sagebrush desert on Jan. 29, 1935. Three months later, in need of cash, they sold their find to George Austin, grizzled, 63-year-old keeper of the general store, hotel and filling station at Jungo, a tiny hamlet...
...early this month in Manhattan to name Dr. Oxnam's successor, many a DePauw alumnus hoped they would see fit to break precedent, choose a layman. Instead they retired in silence. Last week the committee reassembled in Indianapolis, announced the selection of another Methodist minister. He was Dr. Clyde Everett Wildman, Professor of Old Testament history and religion at Boston University's School of Theology...
...Voice of Iowa (Clyde L. Herring...
...oppose "war and military training," but turned down a resolution condemning the Reserve Officers Training ¶ Censured the school boards of Valhalla N. Y., Alexandria, Ind., Corunna, Mich., Lock Haven State Teachers College, Pa. for "unwarranted" dismissal of teachers. ¶ Elected not confident Superintended Holmes but Superintendent Orville Clyde Pratt of Spokane, Wash., as NEA's president for 1936-37. Big, solemn, bespectacled President-elect Pratt, at 55 ai authority on school finance, has kept Spokane's School Board firmly under hi thumb. His platform: More Members Democratic Control, Teacher Participation on School Boards...