Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relict of its onetime editor, Robert Wilson Patterson; aunt of its present publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick; mother of President Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News and of Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald; of a heart attack; after long illness; in Chicago. Died. Clay Meredith Greene, 83, of injuries suffered when he fell and broke his hip last May; in San Francisco, Calif. A famed playwright and librettist at the turn of the Century, he was eleven times (1891-98, 1902-05) Shepherd of New York's Lambs Club, was the oldest member...
...British politics. President of the Geneva Disarmament Conference, one of the organizers and chief tacticians of the Labor Party, he lost his parliamentary standing in the National Government's landslide of 1931. Last week a new seat was provided for him to relax in. In a bye-election, Clay Cross, Derbyshire returned him to the House of Commons with a three-to-one majority over the Government candidate, on a platform of peace and disarmament. The seat will be the softer for the knowledge that his former friend, white-crowned James Ramcay MacDonald, campaigned personally against...
Government spokesmen were unperturbed They pointed out that Clay Cross is as solidly Laborite as Georgia is Democratic...
...Grown in the heavy clay soils of western Tennessee and Kentucky and parts of Virginia, dark fire-cured tobacco is largely exported to Europe where its full body and woodsmoke flavor is highly prized...
...years." Thirty-one of his self-allotted years have gone, and Rhodes is already a colossus-like myth. Authoress Millin's biography restores some of the edges to his human outline; she leaves his image something more than lifesize, but strips the marble pediment and shows clay feet...