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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Villain No. 1 was Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of the new National Industrial Relations Board. Delegate I. M. Ornburn of the Cigar Makers International Union charged that when he was chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., as well as head of the cigaret code authority. Mr. Williams had used his NRA prestige to delay the code's enactment, to lower the code wage level and to frame the code so that it "deprived the President of the United States of the mandatory power contained in other codes." On this score a resolution was presented asking the President to "reconsider...
Last February, the clay before he was to have testified at the Stavisky inquiry, Albert Prince, a member of France's highest court, was found on a railroad track in the wild and rocky country outside Dijon. He had been called from Paris by a false message that his mother was dangerously ill. When found, he had been doped, one ankle tied to the rails and his body mangled by a passing train. The music roll that he used for a briefcase was found about 30 yards away, rifled of its contents, together with his keys, his money...
Each plate in the set, which was conceived after the Lincoln volume was contemplated, is a print made from the original negative and pasted in. Some of the figures in the rest of the set include: Henry Clay, Queen Victoria, "Boss" Tweed, John Jacob Astor, Emperor Maximilian of Maxico, and Oscar Wilde...
Chosen chairman of the National Industrial Recovery Board was its seventh member-Samuel Clay Williams. (So hurriedly had the board been recruited that when their first meeting was called to elect the chairman, Messrs. Williams, Hamilton and Whiteside had to cast their votes by long distance telephone.) Last spring Mr. Williams retired as president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) to become an industrial member of the National Labor Board and, later, head of the Advisory & Planning Council. A big man with a soft North Carolina drawl and the best business manners in his State, Mr. Williams took...
...Down to the railway station next clay to see Mrs. Lewis off on the Etoile du Nord went practically every foreign correspondent in Berlin. There they filled her arms with great sheaves of American Beauty roses...