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Diggers' Mite. In Clayton, Okla., burglars laboriously tunneled into the Clayton State Bank's vault, made off with several sacks of money. Contents: 33,300 pennies...
...take the place of retiring President Eugene Meyer. The job was offered to Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada. He turned it down. At one time or another, the job has been turned down by Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal, Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton, former Budget Director Lewis Douglas. (The bank denied an Associated Press story that Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman had also been offered the job.) Unless a head was forthcoming soon, the Bank would have to limp along with an interim president-a state of affairs that would enhance neither...
...years management had made full use of that weapon, persuading the nation's judges, backed by the militia and the police, to enjoin labor from making any offensive move. The practice became so notorious that Congress tried to limit it in 1914 with the Clayton act. But the judges were reluctant to give up their power. In 1932 Congress tried again with the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction...
...ideological twin, Harlem's Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell...
Besides the above spokesmen of jazz as it will be played in 1956, Mr. Granz is bringing three men who from past performances should satisfy all but the most unreconstructed antiquarians. Green-eyed Buck Clayton has proved he can combine melody with modernism by his work on the Basic records: Royal Garden, Bugle, and Sugar Blues made in 1944. His rival among the more comprehensible instrumentalists will be Rex Stewart, Ellington's former solo cornetist who achieves remarkable tonal effect with the valves of his horn pushed down just half-way. The other steadying influence will be the corpse...