Word: clare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democrats had expected a plea for aid to China; Republican Clare Luce picked a topic of perhaps greater importance: Who will rule the postwar airways? (TIME, Feb. 15). In this new sphere, air-minded Clare Luce sprung an old American phobia: that a shrewd and calculating John Bull is going to hornswoggle a naive and idealistic Uncle Sam unless somebody watches...
...drag end of a dreary, routine day. In the House chamber, up rose Connecticut's freshman Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce to make her maiden speech. Ordinarily, in such circumstances, a new member would talk to empty seats; this time more than a third of the House remained to listen. Forty minutes later the speech was over; and an international rumpus was just beginning...
More soberly, Clare Luce added: "I do not mean by civil air supremacy that this country should monopolize the air traffic of the world. We are strong, and not only can we afford to be generous for the peace of the world, we must be. . .. To paraphrase the words of our gallant ally, Winston Churchill ... we were not elected by our constituents to preside over the liquidation of America's best interests, either at home or abroad. The sky's the limit of those interests. The time...
...alternate appointment to Annapolis, but he tired of waiting and got into West Point by competitive examination. His West Point colleagues remember him only as the sort of mathematical shark that makes promising material for the field artillery. At the Point he acquired the nickname "Whitey," and met Clare Huster, whom he married three years later...
...Republican Congressman Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan, a labor-hating eccentric, who has pocketless coats so his hands will not get tangled up while he is orating. He once called President Roosevelt a "crazy, conceited megalomaniac"; he scoffed at the President's "absurd" assertion that there were U-boats off U.S. shores. In 1940 he said: "Roosevelt has . . . seized most of the dictatorial powers exercised by Hitler, but he lacks Hitler's efficiency...