Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President issued an order cutting the last link between the National Labor Board and NRA. To its eight members, he added five more: Clay Williams, president of Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Leon Marshall of Johns Hopkins Law School; Ernest Draper, Manhattan food packer; Gerard Swope, president of General Electric; and Harry Dennison, stationery supplies manufacturer. Thus was the first step taken to give the Labor. Board new powers to settle the Weirton Steel and Budd Manufacturing Co. labor disputes...
...seat auditorium Macy visitors could see & hear, among others, the following experts, in demonstration-talks: Ellsworth Vines, tennis; Lou Gehrig, baseball; Margaret Bourke-White, photography; Tony Sarg, puppets; Russell Patterson, illustrating; Arthur Murray, ballroom dancing. Instructors from Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet...
Poor Cinderella! She expected great things of life. And now all her illusions have been so rudely shattered; Harvard has feet of the commonest clay. Even so she tried heroically to serve; she even went to such lengths as secretly to bring the boys what they ordered. All this, despite the fact that some of them were so inconsiderate as not to ask her to marry them, and that only one of them tipped her a dollar. We are sorry that Kay's faith has been shattered; but all great spiritual experiences come only at a high cost. And this...
...series, finally broke up for lack of opponents. Softspoken, sleek-haired, he coaches smooth and deceptive team play, foxy shifts from man-to-man to zone defenses. In spare time he studies sculpture, has made three figures. Says he: "I mold my players just like I mold my clay." East. In 1908 Harvard quit the Eastern Intercollegiate League in a huff. This season it returned, and so far has lost every conference game played. Princeton, an early favorite, slumped after the Christmas holidays. Most of its first-stringers are seniors playing their third season and apparently bored with the game...
Josephy related his interview with Long last December, and explained his reasons for desiring to unseat a man whom he believes is a disgrace to the governing body that once contained the names of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster...