Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nomination fell as a bombshell to the press if not to the nominee, whose previous experience on the bench consisted of a year-and-a-half as a "boy judge" in Birmingham's police court. That was in 1910, three years after he had left poverty-bitten Clay County with $1.20 following the burning of the law office young Hugo had managed to set up when he graduated from the University of Alabama Law School...
...Clay County, Ill., on a farm for which the county might have been named, 60-year-old Bunyan Travis lived and labored, sweating in the noonday and sometimes cursing the bread he earned, for Bunyan's acres were scrawny with drought and his back was bad with rheumatism. Finally he got him a cane to hobble around on. Chance came to Farmer Travis last spring when a gang of husky young men from the Southwest put up a derrick on his land and began to drill for oil. On May 23 they brought in an oil well which produced...
...last week 115 test wells were drilling in 21 counties of Illinois' central basin and 75 wells were producing 10,000 barrels a day in Clay, Marion and Richland counties. First strike in Richland was the Ohio Oil Co.'s "Arbuthnot No. 1," brought in fortnight ago with a flow of 2,561 barrels the first day, which seemed to prove a 30-mi. extension of the known producing area. Close-mouthed oilmen now predict that the first year's production from Illinois' new fields will be between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 barrels...
...Antonio, Tex. last week rumbled one of the last vans full of plaster and clay models of sculpture by Mountain-Carver Gutzon Borglum, who closed up his studio and left Texas for good last month after the contract for San Antonio's greatest memorial, the Alamo Cenotaph, was awarded not to him but to pudgy Sculptor Pompeo Coppini. During the twelve years he called San Antonio his home, big-eared, irascible Sculptor Borglum never finished a Texas job. A hater of cheap politics since the fiasco of his Stone Mountain project in Georgia, Borglum's wrath at Texas...
...Louis, controversy raged over designs by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles for a $60,000 fountain in Aloe Plaza across from Union Station. Last February aged Art Dealer Francis D. Healy, chairman of the Municipal Art Commission, first saw clay models of Sculptor Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers reproduced in LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked...