Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business start in Leavenworth where, serving a term for narcotic law violations, he fell in with President Herbert Huse Bigelow of Minneapolis' rich Brown & Bigelow (advertising specialties), who was serving a term for income tax evasion. When Mr. Ward was released, Mr. Bigelow, who thought him "good clay worthy of molding," gave him a letter to Brown & Bigelow that got him a job shoveling manure on one of the company farms. By the time Mr. Bigelow was released, Mr. Ward had worked up in the company so far that Mr. Bigelow, mightily pleased, eventually made him a vice president...
...primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take the place of trenches and are sometimes supplemented by small dugouts along their sides. There are no ordnance or survey maps at all-Spain has never been surveyed. The only maps available are the tourist road maps put out by the big French companies, Michelin and Taride...
...Life Insurance Co.; President John M. Franklin, International Mercantile Marine Co.; President Robert M. Hanes, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.; President Robert Wood Johnson, Johnson & Johnson; President Sydney G. McAllister,International Harvester Co.; President Thomas I. Parkinson, Equitable Life Assurance Society; Chairman William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust Co.; Chairman S. Clay Williams, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Chairman Clarence M. Woolley, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.; Chairman Owen D. Young, General Electric...
From the Helen Clay Frick private collection of works of art there has recently come to the Fogg Museum a loan of some thirty paintings. On account of the number and diversified character, they are exhibited, at least for the present, among the Museum's other pictures. Many of them deserve mention, but the leaders in general interest are three portraits by Romney, Reynolds, and Raeburn...
Entire inadequacy of slab artists in the face of heavy sluggers, batters as clay in the hands of stellar pitchers, and an all around exhibition of mental and physical weakness, such as Soldiers Field has not seen since the days of Eric the Red, brought expected defeat to the Lampoon hosts yestere...