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...Clyde Reed (alias Arthur L. Barrett), 30, 6 ft., slender, brown eyes and hair, wanted for highway robbery. He escaped from officers at Kansas City, from a Knoxville, Tenn., jail and from the Tennessee penitentiary. Warning: "Desperate criminal...
Active head of the new bank will be Clyde Edward Brenton, 61. The Brentons are an old Iowa banking family, with homestead at Dallas Center, 24 miles west of Des Moines. The late William Henry Brenton founded a private bank at Dallas Center, and extended it into a chain. He also acquired Iowa farm land. When he died his sons inherited the banks and 10,000 acres of land. Clyde Brenton has no children of his own, so he adopted Harold, his nephew, who, now 30, married and father of two children, is the sole heir to the Brenton fortune...
...knew then I had something good, so I just held on to it." That night he learned that he had won. Engineer Court's plans: to "take that vacation after all and go fishing," to buy his own home, to provide education for his children, Lawrence, Florence, Floracene, Juanita, Clyde. His other three children are already educated. Engineer Court will not, however, receive the entire value of his ticket. To the veteran's relief fund he must donate 47% (about $40,000). To Guy Moore, Indiana plumber who bought a fifth interest in the winning ticket, he must...
...rained till the Churchill Downs track looked like a brown and olive swamp. The favorite flower of the East was Blue Larkspur, but Man O' War's gelded son Clyde Van Dusen won the race. The other Clyde Van Dusen, his trainer, nearly wept when he saw him come in. His owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them...
...grins on the Democratic side, snickers in the gallery. As everyone but the Senator recalled, the "people" who sent Senator Allen were not the voters of Kansas. They were General Counsel James Francis Burke of the Republican National Committee and Secretary of War James William Good, who requested Governor Clyde Reed of Kansas to give Mr. Allen the seat left vacant by Vice President Curtis. Norris Amendment. Without a roll call, the Senate adopted an amendment by Nebraska's Senator Norris designed to meet President Hoover's criticism that the debenture plan would cause overproduction and increase instead...