Word: clare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan's crusty old (77) Clare E. Hoffman, chairman of the House Government Operations Committee, touched off the outbursts at a committee meeting last week by having a recording machine and microphones placed on the table. His purpose, he explained afterwards, was "to show them how they sounded all cackling at once." Committee members, who are as fond of gruff, gritty Chairman Hoffman as he is of cackling, got very sore. After a flurry of angry protest Holifield made a motion that the machine be turned off, and the vote went 20-3 in favor. "Pull the plug," said...
...Cardinal Micara, second-ranking member of the College of Cardinals and pastoral leader of Rome's 500 churches, exhorted his people: "Vote well, vote as Catholics, vote as Romans." In an address at the annual dinner of the American Chamber of Commerce in Milan, newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce made sure that every Italian voter understood where the U.S., which has given Italy $3 billion in aid since war's end, takes its stand. After speaking of past U.S. help to Italy, the ambassador added: "But if-I am required in all honesty to say this...
...learned appeals judges quoted Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche and Rousseau on the inequality of the sexes. When Maria's lawyer (a woman) cited such examples of U.S. stateswomen as Health, Education & Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, one judge replied: "The capacity and intelligence of Mrs. Luce do not apply to the case of a Brazilian woman." In the end, the judges denied Maria Sandra's appeal. But friends in Parliament were trying to push through bills to admit women to the foreign service. The Foreign Office recommended to President Getulio Vargas that...
...noon ceremony in Rome's Quirinale Palace, Clare Boothe Luce, the first woman to head a foreign diplomatic mission in Italy, met President Luig? Einaudi, to present her credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador. As she left after a ten-minute, closed-door chat, a photographer caught an act of gallant politesse in the courtyard: a deep bow of welcome from Presidential Aide Count Giovanni Piccolomini (and a stolid look of approval from one of the servants...
Chamberlain came to America from Ireland at the age of 15. He finished his high school career at Boston Latin, then joined up with the Post. He has returned to County Clare on the Emerald Isle only once, but that trip proved well worth while. It provided him with a wife...