Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elected to that august senior society of Big Business, the board of directors of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., was S, (for Samuel) Clay Williams, slow-spoken chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). A native Carolinian, Tobaccoman Williams once rendered what President Roosevelt called "devoted, impartial service" on the National Industrial Recovery Board. He fills the vacant seat of the late Banker George Fisher Baker. Some other A. T. & T. directors: U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Southern Pacific's Hale Holden, Lawyer John W. Davis, Boston's Charles Francis...
...half holiday. In the town park, a handful of tottering Civil War veterans doze and chatter while they wait to march in the parade. At the Buxton Business College classes are dismissed early and the school's principal is surprised when one of the girls, pretty Mary Clay (Lana Turner) comes back to the classroom to get a vanity case she has forgotten. At the town cemetery, the show-going old Governor pays sincere tribute to the dead and is sardonically congratulated by the steel-trap district attorney who is jealous of his job. All this is so much...
...They Won't Forget, Director Mervyn Le Roy uses this situation for the most devastating study of mob violence and sectional hatred the screen has yet dared to present. There are three major suspects in the case of Mary Clay: the school's principal, the Negro janitor and Robert Hale (Edward Norris), a young Northerner who taught Mary's class and who was seen coming out of the building after the crime. To District Attorney Griffin (Claude Rains), the principal is too big a personage and the janitor too small, to serve his purpose of a spectacular...
...Clay County, 1,450 gal. of acid was driven into a well and rammed home with 165 bbl. of crude. The acid fanned out in a 90° arc, increased the yield of six adjoining wells in addition to the one treated. In ten months production...
Among the several distinguished paintings from the collection of Helen Clay Fricktreat are now on loan at the Fogg Museum, the most important is the portrait of a man in an orange coat by Goya...