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Geography. It is a poor year in which Anderson, Clayton & Co. does not handle 2,000,000 bales of U. S. cotton. It is a poor year in which the firm does not do twice as much business as its nearest private competitor, George H. McFadden & Brother. It has $40,000,000 capital and its credit is good for at least $150,000,000. The list of branches and affiliates stemming from its headquarters in Houston's 16-story Cotton Exchange Building is a complete lesson in world cotton geography. In North America the name Anderson, Clayton...
Last week after a ten-day vacation on a ranch near Las Vegas, N. Mex., with his wife and one of his four daughters, Merchant Clayton returned to his desk in Houston to be on hand, like the world's lesser cotton men, for the Government's estimate. Lamar Fleming Jr., his young partner, who is rated the firm's No. 2 man, saw the figures soon after he debarked from the Enropa in Manhattan. Presumably the partners of Anderson, Clayton & Co. were pleased because a big crop means more cotton to handle. In the seven seasons...
Typist Up. Tall, slim, magnetic, Will Clayton was born 56 years ago on a cotton farm near Tupelo, Miss. His father was a railroad contractor. Son Will left school after the eighth grade, studied shorthand. One of his first customers was William Jennings Bryan, who made him retype a speech because the margins were too narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never...
Pleased, the delegates listened to greetings from Maine's Democratic Governor Louis Jefferson Brann, raised to the presidency their Vice President Clayton Rand of the Gulfport (Miss.) Guide, decided the best editorial page in their membership was that put out by Charles Lendrum Ryder of the Cobleskill (N. Y.) Times, wound up their meeting by setting out on a 1,000-mi. boat and bus junket through the state of Maine...
...budget is God-controlled. There is a real thrill and purpose in teas and dinner parties"-Mrs. Howard Reynolds. "I took time off from studying the part to listen to what God had to tell me. All fear of competition vanished"-Marion Clayton Anderson, bit player in Mutiny on the Bounty...