Word: clare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Edward James Smythe, Klan and Bund go-between, he learned Smythe's candidates for the "nationalist cabinet" of tomorrow: Secretary of the Treasury, Father Coughlin; Secretary of the Navy, Jacob Thorkelson; Secretary of State, Senator Burton K. Wheeler; Secretary of Public Health & Morals, Representative Clare Hoffman...
After her election to Congress last November, Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce was swamped with bids to write a column about Washington. News syndicates and magazines guessed that millions of the U.S. reading public would be interested in what Clare Luce had to say. Offers ran up to four figures a week. Congresswoman Luce, intent on learning her new job, turned them all down...
Roundup was proud and pleased. It advertised Clare Luce's column as its only exclusive feature. Last week, on orders from the War Department, Clare Luce's column was killed...
When Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce made her famed "globaloney" speech last February, enemies of postwar planning seized on the word. Clare Luce complained that she had been misunderstood. Last week she spoke up again, this time on U.S. foreign policy...
Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, making her first formal talk to her Connecticut constituents since election, charged that Washington was still fighting a "lazy war," plumped for a near-confisca-tory war tax on "the well-to-do & the rich," said she was for drafting "all capital, profits & plants" if labor was to be drafted, and ticked off the war manpower commission as a "small but apparently indissolvable group of waltzing mice & pretzel benders...