It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

Mrs. Clayton Nairne, whose daughter, was among the court maids, chose a deep greenish blue lace gown.

In 1914, the Clayton Act attempted to take labor out from under the anti-trust legislation by stating that human labor was not to be considered a commodity.

The bequest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode in 1800 did much to raise the Museum's reputation ; but Montagu House became increasingly crowded and decrepit and it was apparent that it would be unable to cope with further expansion.

Royce Clayton, the club's starting shortstop in 2004, also was allowed to leave.

The first recipient of the Cy Young Award was Don Newcombe of the Dodgers, and the most recent winners are Clayton Kershaw, from the National League, and Justin Verlander, from the American League.

With prime time competition, Corrie was again seen as being old fashioned, with the introduction of the ' normal ' Clayton family in 1985 being a failure with viewers.

On 18 June, the first of 161 soil erosion control camps was opened, in Clayton, Alabama.

The highest-ranking official whose term unquestionably continued during the interim was Polk's Secretary of State, James Buchanan ( later elected President himself in 1856 ), whose term did not formally expire until his successor, John M. Clayton, took office on March 7.

Soon after Clayton Yeutter was appointed chief White House domestic policy advisor, Kemp's Economic Empowerment Task Force was abolished.

The Plan was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan.

In June 1893, after the club was evicted from North Road by its owners, Manchester Deans and Canons, who felt it was inappropriate for the club to charge an entry fee to the ground, secretary A. H. Albut procured the use of the Bank Street ground in Clayton.

Clayton was the top receiver of the game, with 6 receptions for 92 yards.

Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father when, on December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children.

Finally, Clayton was a quiet person, who never promoted the event or even talked to other persons about it.

The chapel contains some fifteenth-century glass, but most was cast by Clayton and Bell, Hardman, and Wailes, in around 1869.

Subsequently, Hoyle's picture was expanded during the 1960s by creative contributions by William A. Fowler, Alastair G. W. Cameron, and Donald D. Clayton, and then by many others.

The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 (, codified at, ), was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U. S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency.

Passed during the Wilson administration, the legislation was introduced by Alabama Democrat Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. in the U. S. House of Representatives, where the act passed by a vote of 277 to 54 on June 5, 1914.

When Clay County was created as Arkansas's 67th county on March 24, 1873 ( alongside Baxter County ), it was named Clayton County after John M. Clayton, then a member of the Arkansas Senate and the brother of then-U. S.

* The Great Merlini, created by author Clayton Rawson.

Mary Violet Clayton Calthrop, wife of author Dion Clayton Calthrop, wrote in April 1925 about Barker and Flower Fairies of the Spring: " She has such exquisite taste, besides draughtsmanship.

* Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. ( 1857 – 1929 )-U. S. House of Representatives, author of the Clayton Act regulating antitrust behavior.

File: Clayton House. jpg | The Henry D. Clayton House was built around 1850 and served as the home of both Confederate General Henry D. Clayton, Sr., former President of the University of Alabama as well as his son Henry D. Clayton, Jr., a legislator, a judge and the author of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914.

Lillian Smith, author of the 1944 best-seller Strange Fruit, was born in Jasper before relocating with her family to Clayton, Georgia at age 14.

* Guy Stair Sainty, the author and art dealer, was born at Clayton Priory on what is now the southern edge of the town.

Clayton Holmes " Clay " Aiken ( born November 30, 1978 ) is an American singer, television personality, actor, producer, author, and activist who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003.

Bradley Clayton Denton ( born 1958 ) is an American science fiction author.

Ace Drummond was an aviation comic strip scripted by Eddie Rickenbacker, the celebrated World War I aviator, and illustrated by Clayton Knight ( 1891 – 1969 ), well-known aviation author and artist, who was the father of illustrator Hilary Knight.

" From Different Liberal Perspectives: Fiorello H. La Guardia, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Civil Rights in New York City, 1941 – 1943 ," The Journal of Negro History, Vol.

The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O ' Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

Supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, Ferlinghetti won the case when California State Superior Court Judge Clayton Horn decided that the poem was of " redeeming social importance ".

Powell Clayton ( August 7, 1833August 25, 1914 ) was an engineer, a Union Army general in the American Civil War and the first Reconstruction Republican governor of Arkansas.

He worked for the passage of the landmark legislation promoting the American Civil Rights Movement and privately sought to prevent the House from denying Rep. Adam Clayton Powell his seat in 1967.

One Battle of Lovejoy's Station was fought on August 20, 1864, near what is now Lovejoy, Georgia, in Clayton County, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.

from West Chester, New York and Catherine L. Naudain who married a prominent printer of Harrisburg, Adam B. Hamilton, and Lydia Frazier Naudain who married Clayton A. Cowgill M. D., a surgeon in the Civil War, who in 1867 moved to Florida, where he bought a plantation on the St. John River at Orange Mills.

Powell ( birth name: Adam Clayton Powell Diago ) was born to Civil Rights leader and former congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and his third wife Yvette Diago in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Their father, Henry DeLamar Clayton, Sr., was a prominent judge and Major General in the Confederate army during the American Civil War and President of the University of Alabama.

Their father, Henry De Lamar Clayton, was a prominent judge and major general in the Confederate army during the American Civil War.

* Bertram Tracy Clayton ( 1862 – 1918 ), U. S. congressmen and U. S. Army officer killed in World War I

* Christopher Clayton, Royal Navy pilot during the Falklands War, who later became an admiral

There were also two Cherokee settlements of unknown division, Chicherohe ( Chechero ), which was destroyed during the American Revolutionary War, located along Warwoman Creek, east of Clayton, and Eastertoy ( Eastatowth, Estatowee ) which was located near the present-day Dillard.

* Bertram Tracy Clayton ( 1862 – 1918 )- U. S. House of Representatives representing New York and U. S. Army officer killed in World War I.

In 1794 after the American Revolutionary War, the first European-American settlement was attempted by Archibald Prater, John Williams, Ebenezer Hanna, Clayton Cook, but they were driven out by Native Americans who had long inhabited the territory.

Niebuhr debated Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of The Christian Century magazine about America's entry into World War II.

During World War II, Leo met Clayton Orr " Doc " Kauffman, an inventor and lap steel player who had worked for Rickenbacker, which had been building and selling lap steel guitars for a decade.

In 1871, as part of a political compromise ( see: Brooks-Baxter War ), Hadley was appointed Acting Governor after the resignation of Powell Clayton, a controversial figure associated with the Brooks-Baxter War.

Clayton was once again elected to the United States Senate in 1845, where he opposed the annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War but advocated the active prosecution of the latter once it was begun.

Described in the latter book as " a giant of the aerospace industry ", Yoyodyne was founded by World War II veteran Clayton " Bloody " Chiclitz.

Sweeny's efforts were also co-ordinated in Canada by World War I air ace Billy Bishop and with artist Clayton Knight who formed the Clayton Knight Committee, who, by the time the USA entered the war in December 1941, had processed and approved 6, 700 applications from Americans to join the RCAF or RAF.

* Doctor Clayton Forrester ( War of the Worlds ), lead character from the 1953 film War of the Worlds

While not first in Boston to adopt a popular music and disc jockey format with hourly newscasts ( WORL was the first ), a combination of a powerful signal, top-notch personalities like Ray Dorey, Fred B. Cole, Bob Clayton, Norm Nathan, news anchor John Day, and a mid-morning woman's show hosted by Christine Evans ( also billing herself as Chris ); along with live coverage of Boston Red Sox baseball, Boston Bruins hockey, and Boston Celtics baskletball, made WHDH one of the most popular stations in the region in the post-World War II era.

In 2010, Epic Games held a vote-by-purchase event between July 29 and September 6 to determine the fate of a character, Clayton Carmine, in their upcoming game Gears of War 3.

In 1951, Barry was hired for in his first movie, in the role of " Dr. Frank Addison " in The Atomic City ( 1952 ), and then in 1952, Barry was cast as " Dr. Clayton Forrester " in the science fiction film The War of the Worlds ( 1953 ).

Clayton entered government service in World War I as a member of the Cotton Distribution Committee of the War Industries Board.

Disagreements between them led Clayton to resign in January 1944, only to return to government service a month later as Surplus War Property Administrator under James F. Byrnes in the Office of War Mobilization.