Word: clays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herman Bosshard is a truck farmer in Clay County, Minn., just across the Red River from Fargo, N. Dak. One day last summer by a squiggle of his pen Farmer Bosshard suddenly made himself an immensely important figure in the political and financial life of Minnesota. What he signed was a complaint against 19 directors of Northwest Bancorporation, charging second degree larceny for selling him ten shares of stock for $220. Farmer Bosshard was persuaded to sign the complaint by henchmen of Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson...
Undaunted was the blond, chunky Governor, who wants to socialize every bank, factory and utility in his flat State. Within a few weeks his legal henchmen turned up in the little town of Moorhead, in the northwest corner of Minnesota where Farmer-Labor strength is great. Moorhead is the Clay County seat, and the Olson prosecutors went out to see Farmer Bosshard, who was one of the 25 Banco stock-holders in the vicinity. On the basis of his complaint, without waiting for the formality of an indictment, a district judge ordered Banco's President J. Cameron Thomson...
...directors, nearly all of them nationally known. Among the ten were Maryland's onetime Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie; onetime FDI Chairman Walter Joseph Cummingst now chairman of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.; President Ellery W, Mann of Zonite Products Corp.; Vice Chairman Samuel Clay Williams of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...
...legendary character in the Georgia backwoods, he both delights and surprises white-trash Clay Horey by driving into the yard one day and demanding food, lodging and female solace from one of the "high-yallers" down the road. Horey is glad to comply until Semon makes a play for his 15-year-old wife, Dene. The novel bounces riotously from lecherous high jinks to a crap game in which Horey loses money, new car and spouse to the all-powerful Man of God. The book reaches a tropical heat-wave climax with Sunday's revival meeting in the schoolhouse...
...although Semon Dye has seduced most of the women, consumed most of the corn, and taken most of the money in the immediate neighborhood of Clay Horey's shack, the people of Rocky Comfort are sorry to have the wandering Man of God hit the trail for the next town. He may have brought ruination with him, but he was at least a diversion. Most readers will not believe in any of the characters of Journeyman, but they may be impressed by Mr. Caldwell's violent energy, his satirical thrusts at orgiastic religion...