Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of last week the real seat of U. S. Government was the front seat of President Roosevelt's specially-built Plymouth touring car. In it for hours at a time he drove along the dried clay roads around Warm Springs, Ga. carrying all problems of state under his soft felt...
...Walter Merrill Hall quit school, went to work as a Wall Street runner to help support his mother and grandmother. But every morning, every evening he practiced his tennis, developed a powerful forehand drive, a smashing backhand "down the line." At 24, Walter Merrill Hall was national clay court doubles champion. At 30 he came within two points of beating Bill Tilden in the national singles, might have done so if rain had not blurred his spectacles. At 45, last summer, he won the New Hampshire State championship. Last week his devotion to the game brought its high reward when...
Teacher from Cornell. George Frederick Warren, 59, Professor of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, is an economist close to the soil. As a boy he herded sheep on his native farm in Clay County, Neb. After his degree from the University of Nebraska and postgraduate study at Cornell he settled down in Ithaca in 1906 as an assistant professor in the Agricultural College and as operator of his own 500-acre farm close by. There he raised six children, cash crops and a large herd of Holstein cows. Scornful...
...Farley appointment of last week: Henry Clay Swanson, 62, onetime grocer, brother of the Secretary of the Navy, to be postmaster of Danville. Va.. on whose Main Street he lives. The distinguished Secretary brother wangled, when a Senator, a new Danville post office, now under construction...
Members of the expedition whom McCaleb selected were John N. Dyer of M.I.T. now in charge of field communications. Clay Bailey, United States Navy, Gay C. Rutehison. Texas A and M and Stanley D Pierce '33, an engineering student...