Word: clays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation theory of trade, General Wood has long been sympathetic with New Deal experiments. As businessman, he has served on NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, on Secretary Roper's Business Council. Newshawks jumped to the conclusion that the President was grooming General Wood to succeed S. Clay Williams when NRA is renewed and reorganized...
Camel Man. Biggest asset that Franklin Roosevelt had in planning his renewal of NRA was his possession of a good midway man, Samuel Clay Williams, midway man in NRA theory, midway man (presumably) in NRA history. The one-man rule of this New Deal experiment ended with the resignation of General Johnson. It may return again to replace the present board-rule whenever President Roosevelt can find...
...consider scrapping NRA was that it was an accomplished fact, huge and substantial. In Herbert Hoover's Department of Commerce Building it rambles through a vast suite of offices. In the seat where Hugh Johnson once sat alone, now sits the National Industrial Recovery Board with S. Clay Williams as its chairman. Beside him sit his four horsemen: Leon C. Marshall, political economist; Arthur D. Whiteside, executive of Dun & Bradstreet; Sidney Hillman, labor executive; Walton H. Hamilton, lawyer and economist-a potent team whose days are given to wrestling with economic problems, with captains of industry and leaders...
...Clay Williams first went up from North Carolina to deal with the New Deal on behalf of the tobacco business. He was a powerfully-formed, slow-spoken man of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Iredell County, part of Representative Bob Doughton's Congressional district. As a young lawyer he was picked by the late Richard J. Reynolds and brought up in the tradition of the company that makes Camels: a company in which every director is a salaried officer and gets down to the plant in the morning at the same hour as the men. That tradition does...
When the New Deal wanted to invite the co-operation of hardboiled businessmen, its friendliest thoughts were of him. Secretary Roper made him head of his Business Advisory & Planning Council. And when the President wanted someone to step into General Johnson's shoes, Clay Williams was the answer. He came at 95? a year ($1 after April i) and began getting down to NRA headquarters at 7:30 in the morning. He still does. At breakfast, lunch and dinner, he goes out to eat with businessmen who have kicks against NRA-it is against his rules to be interrupted...