Word: clays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHARLES L. CLAY Boston, Mass...
...beginning, in 1836, Atlanta was the spot of red clay where one Hardy Ivy had his cabin, and where an engineer named A. H. Brisbane chose to drive a stake. Because the stake marked the end of the new Western & Atlantic Railroad, the town-to-be was called Terminus. By 1843 Terminus had ten families and one more railroad, and Governor Wilson Lumpkin had a daughter named Martha. So Terminus became Marthasville, and Statesman John C. Calhoun in 1845 saw what was to come: "Such is the formation of the country between the Mississippi Valley and the Southern Atlantic coast...
...courtly Howard Coonley of Walworth Co., whose valve business has not been doing so well in spite of recovery; barrel-chested Utilitarian Wendell Lewis Willkie, foe of TVA; President Clarence Francis, able little-publicized business pundit, and Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester, of General Foods; heavy-jowled Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of Reynolds Tobacco; Wisconsin's politics-minded Walter Jodok Kohler, of Kohler...
Dudley's sextet walked over Dunster 6 to 2 in the next game. Louis Clay, at right defense, and Don Regan, at left wing, provided the spark for the Dudley team, while Eliot Fareley and Jim Doughty, alternating at center for Dunster, played strong defensive games...
Among the Eliot squad seeing action were Chute, Ossaua, T. Miller, Hull, A. Miller, and Henderson. On the Dudley list were: Regan, White, Durant, Harris, Clay, MacDonald, Santesuosso, and Hawthorne...