Word: clarks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour provision of the new Relief act. They explained it was a strike against Congress, a belated lobby against a new law, but the fact remained that the 130-hour rule was written into the act at the express request of President Roosevelt's new WPAdministrator, Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. And Franklin Roosevelt was on record, since as early as 1935, as opposing the "prevailing wage" provision demanded (and heretofore obtained) by union labor. In signing the new Relief Act, Franklin Roosevelt noted other "hardships" worked by it (TIME, July 10), but he passed the 130-hour proviso...
...lamplit and gaslit days of the U. S. theatre, few plays were published. Four years ago Barrett Harper Clark, historian and critic (Eugene O'Neill, A Study of the Modern Drama) of the drama, got an $8,000 grant (through Authors' League of America and the Dramatists' Guild) from the Rockefeller Foundation, began hunting for unpublished plays, of which he believes there are 20,000. In old actors' homes, in garrets of theatre folk, after devious detectification, Mr. Clark and his helpers found some 400 plays. As prime examples of Americana-but not of dramatic literature...
Last week a tall, tanned geophysicist and petroleum engineer named Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. addressed the Institute of Radio Engineers in San Francisco. He told them how seismographic or "artificial earthquake" methods of prospecting for oil had improved in recent years. Technique at present is to bore a hole 500 ft. deep, drop a dynamite charge to the bottom. When the charge is exploded, vibrations resembling earthquake waves ripple out in all directions. Some travel straight down, and part of them are reflected back up with different intensities from layers of rock, sandstone, limestone, shale. Geophones on the surface pick...
...Kate Smith & Co., CBS. Substitute, starting last week: Summer Calling, a musical variety hour with Crooner Buddy Clark...
...fanmail response to the first program was not great, but included notes of appreciation from such listeners as Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds and Little Steelman Charles R. Hook, ex-president of the National Association of Manufacturers...