Word: clare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Forum of the Air (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). "Atomic Energy Who Should Control It?" Harold Stassen, Physicist Irving Langmuir, Representatives Clare Boothe Luce and J. Parnell Thomas...
...artists are seldom advertised. Thus Tarzan still carries Edgar Rice Burroughs' bold byline, but has been written and drawn for years by a succession of ghosts. King of the Royal Mounted still bears the name of Zane Grey, whom it has survived by seven years. And although Clare Briggs died in 1930, the New York Herald Tribune could not bring itself to put a new by-line (Arthur Folwell and Ellison Hoover) on his Mr. and Mrs. strip until eight years...
Said he: "I had hoped that Clare Boothe Luce would be a candidate for the United States Senate. She told me on Tuesday that her decision, made some months ago, was final and that she would not be available. She urged me publicly a long time ago to run and has been consistent in her stand. This was a very influential factor in my own decision...
...Pressure. Thus ended the notable political career of Clare Luce. It had begun, formally, in September 1942 when she accepted a nomination for Congress as her war-job. The U.S. was still on the defensive. Before Pearl Harbor and afterwards, Clare Luce had seen as much of the war around the world as any American civilian-and she had very strong ideas on the nature of the catastrophe into which the U.S. and the world had been betrayed by a variety of follies and stupidities. She wanted a more vigorous war effort and a more intelligent foreign policy after...
From the day she arrived in Washington, Clare Luce was under such a pressure of public curiosity as few Representatives had ever had to endure. Some of it was well-meaning, some of it silly, some of it vicious. She became gradually a heroine to thousands and a menace to other thousands of Third Termites...