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Fred Nygard, an experienced crane operator, related how he joined the union last April. A few days later he took two application cards to work with him in his cap. While mopping his brow, the cards fluttered down 40 ft. from his crane to the floor. One he managed to retrieve but the other was picked up by a fellow worker. Five days later the foreman fired him, saying: "I guess you don't want to work here...
Paul W. Cherington; Bayard S. Clark; Eugene V. Clark; Paul C. Clough; Gaston Coblentz; Usher P. Coolidge; Alexander R. Cowper; John E. Crane; Joseph R. Crump; William N. Dale; Vinton A. Dearing; Joseph J. Dodge; Edmund J. Doering, 2d.; James R. Dowd; Herbert M. Dowsett, Jr.; Charles A. Dulles; Charles E. Ennis; John J. Fernsler...
...crane that "J. Henry" used to hoist into place these solid blocks of business enterprise was a political machine which he began building as a youthful town committee chairman in North Canaan. In a borrowed horse & buggy he would haul lazy Republicans to the polls. By 1898 he was a State committeeman. and in 1910 made his first bid for Bosshood. He ran Charles A. Goodwin of Hartford for Governor against Everett J. Lake, then Lieutenant-Governor. Goodwin won the nomination but "J. Henry" had split the Party, and for the first time in 20 years a Democrat was elected...
...nation's newsstands with an amazingly apposite article. Title: "Five O'Clock, Off California-"Author: Lieutenant George W. Campbell, U. S. N. Subject: the breaking-up and loss of the Navy dirigible Macon off Point Sur in 1935. Writing with the care and control of Stephen Crane's classic chronicle of disaster, The Open Boat, Lieut. Campbell tells a memorable tale. Without a wasted word, readers are made vividly aware of every disciplined detail of the Macon's last flight, from the rising siren to the final, gentle crash on the surface...
...Freshman golf team will meet Yale tomorrow at New Haven, with William A. Cordingley Jr., John E. Crane, Samuel M. Fahr, Robert B. Graves, Matthew J. Whittall 2d and either John F. Kennedy or William M. Maish representing the Yardlings...