Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earned his greatest distinction as an administrator. As city manager he cleaned up Cincinnati, got national fame with his cool, able handling of a crisis when the Ohio River flooded part of the city in 1937. He took over the troubled University of Wisconsin after the late Dr. Glenn Frank was ousted, did a good job there as well. That change cost him a $10,000 salary cut (from $25,000 to $15,000). His new job will entail another cut (to $10,000). But he did not resign from the university; after he had talked to Franklin Roosevelt last...
Most successful wildcatter in the U. S. is young, tough Glenn H. McCarthy. His glib boast: he drills wells for nothing (i.e., very cheap), hence can't lose. Dubbed "King of the Wildcatters" by fellow Texans, Glenn was a moderately successful filling-station operator until 1933. Borrowing a rig from a friend, he drilled several failures, then struck in Big Creek and the Conroe field, sold out the latter for $50,000. From there he moved on to Anahuac in Chambers County. Drilling two and a quarter miles north of the centre of a field controlled by the majors...
...Tripped to the Army proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md. to inspect new ordnance and explosives; to the Glenn Martin plane plant in Baltimore; to Camp Meade, Md., being photographed everywhere with guns, tanks, planes...
Died. Dr. Glenn Frank, 52, longtime educator and GOPundit, candidate for Wisconsin's Republican nomination for U. S. Senator; and Reporter Glenn Frank Jr., 21, his son; in a motor accident en route to a speaking engagement; near Green Bay, Wis. When in 1925 Dr. Frank resigned as editor-in-chief of Century Magazine, became the University of Wisconsin's famed "boy president," he was first welcomed, finally ousted (1937) by Progressive Governor Phillip F. La Follette. Fortnight ago Dr. Frank had rescued an injured motorist (TIME, Sept...
When Driver Arthur James overturned on a Wisconsin highway, next car to happen along was that of an urbane, immaculately dressed man who helped right the overturned car, extricate Mrs. James. Then Dr. Glenn Frank, onetime president of the University of Wisconsin, longtime Republican bigwig, drove on to the town where he was to speak in his campaign for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator...