Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep young on martial memories. As at their 13 other conventions, thousands of legionaries, converging in Portland, will dress up in bright uniforms and, behind blaring bands, parade past the Multnomah Stadium packed with 35,000 admiring citizens. Meetings will be held in the 16-year-old auditorium on Clay Street which will seat 4,000 delegates. For the convention's entertainment the Oregon Legislature voted $25,000. Portland businessmen made up an additional play pot. As a courtesy the Navy is sending two cruisers to Portland under Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Fleet...
...explosives), George Horace Lorimer (Satevepost), Wilfred Washington Fry (N. W. Ayer & Son), J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil), Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles A. Cannon (towels), Samuel Clay Williams (Reynolds Tobacco), A. D. Geoghegan (Wesson Oil), Fred Wesley Sargent (Chicago & Northwestern), John Stuart (Quaker Oats), Fred Pabst (Cheese), Alvan Macauley (Packard), Frank Chambless Rand (International Shoe), Robert L. Lund (Listerine), Charles Donnelly (Northern Pacific), Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (lumber), Carl Raymond Gray (Union Pacific), William Stamps Farish (Humble...
...Dixie Highway and the National Road, two chalklines drawn across the smooth slate of Ohio, meet ten miles north of Dayton at a village called Vandalia. At Vandalia are the $100,000 grounds of the Amateur* Trapshooting Association of America, where, late every August, with eleven freight carloads of clay targets (made of sand and plaster of Paris) and $32,000 worth of shotgun shells, are held the most important trapshooting events in America. The Vandalia firing line is nearly a mile long. Shooters fire in squads of five over 27 traps, each manned by a corps of trap loaders...
...workers may enter, take two years of preparatory, three years of college work. Last year there were 44 students; next autumn 55 are expected. Commonwealth has no commencements, degrees, examinations or roll-calls. Instructors?who include William Cunningham, onetime reporter on the New Orleans Times-Picayune; Arkansas Lawyer Clay Fulks; B. J. Ostrow. one-time cinema critic for the Union City (N. J.) Hudson Dispatch; and Marion Hille. onetime New York show girl?receive no pay, work along with the students...
...efforts to escape hackneyed and stilted media. Editor Eggleston has introduced two other forms of illustration in Life: caricatures modelled in tin, marionette groups in clay...