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Because they got the job of building R. M. S. Queen Mary, the thrifty Scots of John Brown's Shipyard on the Clyde have just paid a tight little dividend of one shilling (25?) per share, after years of paying none. Last week they got the contract to build what Britons called a "sister ship" to the Queen Mary until leading London newsorgans declared that...
...Hamilton launched out as a candidate for Governor. Opposed to him in the Republican primary was Clyde M. Reed who had the backing of Kansas liberals-William Allen White, Arthur Capper, Alfred M. Landon. Hamilton was beaten, Reed elected. Two years later Reed, with the same backers, tried to repeat. Hamilton changed tactics, became the manager of another candidate, Frank ("Chief") Haucke. This time Hamilton licked the Liberals, only to be beaten in the election by Democrat Harry Woodring...
...British contender for the title of "largest ship afloat" which was built on the River Clyde and is now in active service is the (1 George V , 2 Glasgow, 3 Queen Mary, 4 Normandie, 5 Leviathan...
Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.) Newton Diehl Baker................. D.C.L. John Clyde Hostetter, Research Director of Corning Glass Works, for his part in the production of California Institute of Technology's 200-in. glass telescope reflector (TIME, March 23)............................... D.Sc...
...Ringling's and Barnum & Bailey's have combined, such competitive stunts are no longer demanded. Fellows admits that accidents still happen under the big top, but on no such scale as in the dangerous days of looping automobiles and diving bicycles. Such ' hair-raising numbers as Clyde Beatty's animal-training act are not popular with all members of the audience, and present knotty transportation difficulties. But the elephants, the trapezists, the trick riding, the clowns are hardy perennials. Of the professional clowns Fellows remembers, one filled in the winters at osteopathy, one was a patent...