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...Virginia's fleshy Clifton Alexander Woodrum, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee in charge, the Representatives curtly dismissed an appropriation of $1,050,000,000 suggested by the Workers Alliance, of $1,000,000,000 by C. I. O., of $915,000,000 by Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, representing the U. S. Conference of Mayors. Without even taking a record vote on the President's figure, they lopped off $150,000,000, set their own figure...
...Committee, headed by Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D., Va., and heavily Democratic, fixed the projected appropriation at $725,000,000, specified that it must be apportioned over the full five months ahead, and moved to void Mr. Roosevelt's recent order blanketing 33,000 in Works Progress Administration personnel under civil service by directing that none of the new appropriation be used to pay salaries of those so blanketed...
...Richard's father was a shoemaker who wrote and published several volumes of verse. Born at Bristol in 1864, Richard left school at 12, became a newsboy, printer's devil, shoemaker's apprentice. He studied in his spare time, attracted the attention of Clifton College's headmaster who helped him get an education. He taught for a year, then became assistant to Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, the astronomer who discovered helium in the sun. In 1893 he joined Sir Norman on the staff of Nature, succeeded eventually to the editorial chair. As a final distinction...
...that night the Schodack circled the stricken Norwegian, Skipper Clifton Smith pouring out oil to smooth the way for another lifeboat. In the early morning one of the Smaragd's boats made it with seven men. Then the Schodack lowered a second boat, reached the Smaragd and took off the captain and his family, the rest of the crew, two pet dogs. Radioing his owners, the Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., Inc., Captain Smith was brief and businesslike. "It was tough going. . . . We will need a new lifeboat...
...biggest wastepaper converters in the East, Clifton is a family-owned business. The family is the Desiderios, father and seven sons. Frank Desiderio, a strapping, grey-haired Italian, arrived in the U. S. in 1904, penniless, unemployed, unable to speak English. On borrowed money he bought a pushcart, tramped Newark's streets collecting wastepaper. In two years he had a horse and wagon, traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected...