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...Otto," followed it with "Squirrel Food," "Ain't Nature Wonderful," "Crazy Quilt." In 1921 N. E. A.'s General Manager Frank Rostock suggested that Ahern draw a feature laid in a boarding house. Ahern went to work, produced Mrs. Martha Hoople and her needle-nosed, cynical Boarders Clyde and Mac. After a few months a new character was needed and Mrs. Hoople's husband, who "had been gone for nigh on ten years," suddenly appeared. At first Hoople was a grotesque, sawed-off figure not much taller than his little Nephew Alvin. Gradually Hoople grew into...
...chairman of the State Liquor Commission for illegally disposing of State liquor seals, suspension of Sioux City's mayor and the resignations under fire of the Woodbury County attorney and public safety commissioner. As higher-ups were smoked out, at. one time three members of Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring's cabinet were under indictment. One was tried and acquitted, another's case was dismissed, and the third is still trying to have his indictment quashed...
...presumably neutral view from Yale, which has neither farms nor oilwells, was injected by Lester Clyde Lichty and E. J. Ziurys: "The fuel economies accompanying the increased compression ratios made possible by the use of alcohol are offset, both theoretically and from engine test, by its lower heating value per pound of fuel. ... It requires about 1.67 lb. of alcohol to liberate the same amount of energy as . . . by one pound of gasoline...
...annual meeting of the Business Research Council, of which Professor Clyde O. Ruggles of the Harvard Business School is President will be held in conjunction with the Collegiate Schools of Business meeting on Friday. On Tuesday and Wednesday the triennial convention of Beta Gamma Sigma will be held at the commander Hotel in Cambridge...
Sliding the ship into the slot cut for her on the opposite shore at the time of her launching (TIME, Oct. 1, 1934) and turning her downstream was performed without incident. Less than half a mile below the shipyard the Clyde bends in a double S. There came the crisis. With an angry crack the stern cable to one tug broke. Before another could be made fast, Queen Mary's bow was out of the channel, moving like a relentless cliff of steel shoreward...