Word: clare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...introduced the first bill: his pet project to cut 20% off taxes on personal incomes up to $302,000, and 10½% above that. In quick succession came revised versions of the Case bill to clip the powers of labor, and a measure by Michigan's anti-labor Clare Hoffman to throw out portal-to-portal pay suits (see BUSINESS), even those already pending...
...novelists had nothing to offer more controversial than Charles (Lost Weekend) Jackson's frank, unsubtle study of homosexuality, The Fall of Valor, nothing more successfully satirical than John Marquand's B. F.'s Daughter, nothing more socially rebellious than James T. Farrell's Bernard Clare, or Frederic Wakeman's The Hucksters, a now-gamey-now-gooey protest against the kind of ad man he had been...
...campaign, Republican Lodge and his wife, onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti, invaded Bridgeport's Italian district making speeches in Italian, while his opponent, Ranger hero Colonel Henry Andrew Mucci, a second-generation Italian, spoke only English. Lodge will fill the seat occupied for two terms by retiring Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
Elwes not only developed the kind of faith which can move mountains, but his profession and his social position put him near the most useful mountains to move. Lieut. Commander Clare Vyner (R.N., retired), who owns Fountains Abbey, once turned down an offer of ?300,000. Yet, when he heard that the abbey might be "returned to God," he agreed to let it go for ?150,000. To restore the abbey will cost a lot more than that, and Elwes realizes that he will have to look for aid first to U.S. and British Catholics...
...fill retiring Representative Clare Boothe Luce's spot on the ticket, the G.O.P. picked handsome John Davis Lodge, 42, onetime cinemactor, grandson of famed Henry Cabot Lodge and brother of Massachusetts' Republican candidate for Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. In the movies, Connecticut's Lodge was elastic enough to play Shirley Temple's father in The Little Colonel and Marlene Dietrich's lover in The Scarlet Empress. He decided in favor of politics while serving overseas with the Navy...