Word: cincinnatis
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Many a man is made by catastrophe. Ulysses Simpson Grant was made by the Civil War. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini was made by the San Francisco Fire. Noah and Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence Addison Dykstra were alike floated up to eminence by a flood. Last week City Manager Dykstra, the most prominently mentioned candidate to succeed ousted Glenn Frank as President of the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Dec. 28; Jan. 18), met three of the University's Progressive regents in Chicago to discuss the job. He did not like having his salary cut from Cincinnati...
...secretary of the Cleveland Civic League in 1918. That work appealed to him so much that he spent four years with similar organizations in Chicago and Los Angeles, where he worked up to be commissioner and director of personnel of the city water and power department before going to Cincinnati in 1930. During the worst of last January's flood City Manager Dykstra, granted unprecedented dictatorial powers by Cincinnati's city council, became a national hero by pluckily wading around in hip boots, staying at his desk for 36 hours at a stretch. Unanimously, drenched Cincinnati hailed...
...Dykstra, City Manager of Cincinnati and prominent in recent flood relief activities, was chosen president of the University of Wisconsin, it was reported last night by a member of the Wisconsin board of trustees. Dykstra succeeds Dr. Glenn Frank who was recently ousted by the board...
...Cincinnati, Ohio...
Announcement of the appointing of three chairmen for Freshman Red Book committees was made yesterday by John L. Donnell, editor of the Red Book. John D. Edgerton, of Ithaca, New York, Robert J. Glaser, of University City, Missouri, and Joseph S. Stern, Jr., of Cincinnati, Ohio, were named to head the activities, literary, and sports boards respectively...