Word: dykstra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somehow a fire started and at week's end Cincinnati's firemen, police, citizens and even workhouse inmates were fighting not only flood but fire on a two-mile front. By vote of the city council. City Manager C. A. Dykstra was given dictatorial powers to deal with the situation as he thought best. Property damage: $5,000,000. Indiana. Evansville, Funnyman Joe Cook's hometown, was made base of the Coast Guard's relief forces. While 40 horses were rescued from the Dade Park race track, amphibians roared in from the Atlantic coast and radio...
After the fire which destroyed the Kerns Hotel at Lansing, Mich. last week, Representative John Dykstra of Muskegon declared: "The only reason I'm alive now is that I spent so much time in the hotel that I knew every turn in its corridors." It was the same with most of the 26 other Michigan lawmakers who registered at the old Kerns one day last week. They were all in Lansing for a special session to re-count the votes for Secretary of State and Attorney General in the November elections. But nobody wanted to hurry. When...
...last month when he resigned to enter the Kroger chain grocery business (TIME, May 5). Last week, after Lieut. Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant 3rd, Washington's present Director of Public Buildings & Public Parks had refused the post, Cincinnati found its new manager in the person of Clarence Addison Dykstra, 47, Ohio-born citizen of California, a man great in theory and practice. Theory: he taught economics at Ohio State University, political science at the University of Kansas and University of California, Los Angeles. Practice: he was secretary of Cleveland's Civic League, of Chicago's City Club...