Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of the turmoil was Law 75, promulgated in Frankfurt last fortnight by the Anglo-U.S. military commanders in Bizonia, Generals Sir Brian Robertson and Lucius D. Clay. Law 75 transfers ownership of the Ruhr coal, iron and steel industries to temporary German trustees, and provides that when a freely elected democratic German government is able to do so, it shall decide the question of private or public ownership. The reason given for Law 75 was that the promise of eventual German ownership would raise morale among German workers and managers, and therefore raise production...
...York Times permitted itself a genteel snicker: EGA UNDERWRITES LAUGHTER FOR GERMANS ; FINANCES COMIC AS WELL AS TRUE LOVE TALES. The story from Berlin, by Timesman Edward A. Morrow, * said that Generals Clay and Robertson had "approved" requests from Pulpsters Fawcett and Macfadden that they be guaranteed against loss in selling $87,000 a year worth of comic books, True Confessions, True Police Cases, etc., in Germany. A women's club convention in Manhattan promptly viewed the matter with shrill alarm, and the Christian Science Monitor huffed that it was an outrage...
Wearily, EGA officials in Washington deflated Morrow's story. No contracts had been signed with any publishers, they said. All that had happened was that Generals Clay and Robertson had found no ground for disapproving the comics and thrillers as being either Nazi or a threat to security. A week late, the Times quietly corrected the irresponsible story...
...same with Washington, or Daniel Boone, or John James Audubon, or Henry Clay. But in Sunday school, he was told of "a Figure for whom was made an infinitely more enormous claim than for any of the others." The picture showed him as "a pale and posturing person with immoderately long, silky hair . . . who clutched a kind of diaphanous drapery gracefully about him" with an expression of "simpering vapidity...
Born. To William Clay Ford, 23, and Martha Firestone Ford, 23, grandchildren of the late Automaker Henry Ford and Tiremaker Harvey Firestone: their first child, a daughter; in New Haven, Conn. Name: Martha. Weight...