Word: clare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning to Broadway (where she was last seen in Of Mice and Men) after almost ten years in England. Not to be confused with Playwright-Former Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
Party lines sagged and ancient political enemies got together. On the opposition side, New York's Leftist Vito Marcantonio was joined by far-right Republicans like Michigan's Clare Hoffman, Pennsylvania's Robert Rich; by isolationists like Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith...
Ross deputized three of the strongest neurotics to meet Mollie at the Queen Elizabeth. He put her up at the Plaza, arranged parties for her and her husband, Clare Robinson, an official in the German control office in London...
...Tempestuous Petticoat, one of the children, Clare Leighton, now a U.S. wood engraver, has set out to remember mania in all her Edwardian glory. Mama first fell madly in love at ten (with a window cleaner), published her first novel at 16, and believed until the end of her life (1941) that the secret of a ladylike complexion was cold water, lemons and dry oatmeal, externally applied...
...stop the snowball, Michigan Republican Clare E. Hoffman rose up in the new Congress and introduced legislation which would: 1) define the work week as consisting only of time actually spent in productive work; and 2) through retroactive provisions, throw all portal suits out of court. Few experts thought it would be that easy, or that the retroactive provisions would be constitutional. But other bills were being readied for the congressional hopper, in a frantic attempt to slam the door on portal pay. One of them would levy a 100% windfall tax on retroactive portal payments...