Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Williams Out. If for no other reason than that he was president of that highly successful capitalistic enterprise, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), Labor has been unalterably opposed to Samuel Clay Williams as NIRB Chairman since the day he succeeded NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson (TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President...
...Chairman Williams and the other NIRB business member voted to have the code renewed practically as is. The other three board members voted against it. Thereupon Chairman Williams took his minority report to President Roosevelt, got it approved. Upshot was that pressure chiefly from Labor last week eased Samuel Clay Williams out of a job that he never wanted anyway...
...Thus S. Clay Williams is not a New Dealer but a businessman-a tobacco man -but he is a useful New Deal adjunct. His fellow board members know perfectly well that he is on the side of business- which is part of his usefulness at a time when the Administration is trying to win the confidence of business. Because of his open taking of sides in the Recovery Board's debates, it was at one point suggested that he resign the gavel to the Board's Executive Secretary Leon Marshall-which he did. During the discussions...
...Franklin Roosevelt he is a valuable midway man: to bring order out of the NRA's adolescent chaos, to bring it peace instead of contention in the public prints. For Clay Williams has not the temperament to promote stormy scenes and he never has anything of importance to say to the Press. What he has to say he says at the White House himself or sends word by Donald Richberg. He is valued also as a midway man on NRA theory. The index of cigaret consumption fluctuates with every economic curve-and the industry meets fluctuations by flexing...
...question: "Is it oriole, redbird or bluebird, or some strange, un-Auduboned new bird?" S. Clay Williams favors an NRA of neutral color with no spectacular plumage. That makes him a considerable asset to the New Deal. For when the shooting begins over the form of NRA's renewal, a neutral bird will be the poorest target...