Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Herbert Lehman carted 17 other Democratic Governors, ten Republicans who had just finished the business of their 31st Annual Governors' Conference at Albany. The Democrats needed comfort, for at the supposedly non-partisan conference such new G. O. P. brooms as Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, John William Bricker of Ohio, had put them on the defensive by hammering at Federal Relief policies (but not at Relief cash...
Motoring is a Plugge passion; he once drove every foot of the way from New York to Los Angeles and back. Captain Plugge greatly admires U. S. mechanical ingenuity. Last week, while driving over Connecticut's Merritt Parkway, a highspeed, four-lane artery paralleling the cluttered old Post Road, Captain Plugge greatly admired the glass curb reflectors which outline the road at night. He stopped, got out, examined the reflectors minutely with a flashlight. Later he asked the Connecticut Highway Department for samples and manufacturing details, saying he intended to urge installation of the reflectors on English highways...
...Alexander Kyle, 32-year-old Scot: the British Amateur Golf Championship; defeating Welshman Anthony Duncan, 2 & i, in the final; at Holyake, England. Of the five U. S. entrants-Defending Champion Charlie Yates, famed Tennist Ellsworth Vines, Connecticut Socialite Dick Chapman, "Trailer" Bill Holt of Syracuse and one Ned Phillips of Philadelphia-"Trailer" Bill Holt lasted longest (semifinal...
JUDAS, INCORPORATED-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). While tracking down the murderer of a Connecticut industrialist, case-hardened Hank Hyer comes between two rival strikebreaking agencies. Tops for the tough type...
Born 64 years ago on a farm near Knightstown, Ind., wiry, white-haired, amiably skeptical Charles Beard looks like a shrewd Yankee farmer, is really a Hoosier schoolmaster. For the last 20 years he has lived in a big, grey, barnlike house, once a boys' school, on a Connecticut hilltop overlooking the Housatonic River. Part of each winter he usually spends in Washington, D. C., where he visits his good friends, Senator George Norris and Secretary Wallace, keeps a sharp eye on the latest fast moves of legislators. In summer he manages his two dairy farms, calls them...