Word: clare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day was Washington's Birthday. Congressmen listened solemnly to the invocation by Chaplain James S. Montgomery, heard George Washington's farewell address, delivered by Representative Marion T. Bennett of Missouri. Then Michigan's labor-baiting Clare Hoffman got the floor and the House forgot all about George Washington and Bill Gallagher, too. Clare Hoffman was barely set on his feet when he began to flail away at the C.I.O., the P.A.C. and the Communists. Michigan's Frank E. Hook, supported by C.I.O.-P.A.C. in the last election, broke in to defend his friends. Said...
...Bonnie Clare McNair, granddaughter of the late Lieut. General Lesley McNair, who was killed in action in Normandy last July, proudly wore two new decorations-the Legion of Merit, the Silver Star-posthumously awarded to her father, the late Colonel Douglas McNair, who was killed in action on Guam, twelve days after his father's death...
...genial, grey Senator Charles O. Andrews described the U.S. Congress. Many other Congressmen felt the same way. Last week a House committee turned in a report actually recommending that Congress improve itself. The report's seven signers ranged all the way from Reactionaries Howard Smith and Clare Hoffman to Leftist Jerry Voorhis...
Back to Washington this week went Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, her seat in Congress safe for two more years. This was the news that went with her: in two years Clare Luce had risen from the position of an interesting novelty-a good-looking Congresswoman -to an eminence as a main target of the Roosevelt Administration...
...month-long speaking tour-St. Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Newark, Worcester, Boston -Clare Luce had the biggest rallies of anyone except the national candidates...