Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the late, public-spirited Walter Simpson Dickey of Kansas City, rich manufacturer of brick & clay products, bought the Kansas City Journal and Post ten years ago, he announced that he had sold all his stockholdings in public service corporations and quasi-public enterprises. His reason: no newspaper publisher could effectively serve his Public if he has any share in the "Interests." Had Publisher Dickey been alive last week, readers of the Journal-Post might not have seen what they did: an announcement that Henry Latham Doherty, crafty, bearded president of far-flung Cities Service Co. had bought a half...
Home in Detroit since he left Florida last March, Henry Ford last week had much to occupy his mind. His home life is happy. He has a son, four grandchildren: Henry Ford II, 13; Edsel Ford Jr., 11; Josephine Ford, 8; William Clay Ford, 6. He has used his money to surround himself with those things he likes. Yet Depression has not spared him. Ford sales are running about 50% lower than last year. In addition, there is every indication that the great Chevrolet v. Ford battle is more intense than ever with Chevrolet in the lead. There have been...
...charge of the work said that, after boring 35 feet, he found in one place a rock bottom, and in another a hardpan formation, which is a mixture of clay, gravel and sand, and makes a very good foundation. The ground that will be under the heavy steeple of the proposed chapel has been tested to the satisfaction of the foreman. So, the steeple will be able to be built on the corner of the new chapel nearest Sever, as the design calls...
...were "prophets" and "apostles." They bred fowl; dug for themselves a "Sea of Gethsemane"; prayed to a vast, crudely carved Jesus, who was black because the Scriptures did not say that he was not black. Awesome was the Deity, a towering figure the color of roast potatoes, made of clay and burlap...
...issues of the day gradually led to the formation of the Federalist and Republican camps, dominated by the two irreconcilables Hamilton and Jefferson. The bitter defeat of the Federalists inaugurated a long period of Republican supremacy coming to a tottering climax in the election of John Quincy Adams over Clay, Crawford, and Jackson. It is in the chapters on the struggles of the Jacksonian era that Mr. Lynch is most successful and brings out a series of interesting personalities and amusing anecdotes as readable as the pages of Claude Bowers...