Word: clark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it takes something besides bandages for China to fight scrap iron for Japan, and that the peaceful artisans of Hollywood have most to lose from the world rise of militarism and dictatorship. He talked with Actors Melvyn Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. They all talked with Clark Eichelberger, a League of Nations advocate and chairman of the Committee for Concerted Peace Efforts. After a series of parlor parleys in the best Hollywood manner, they emerged with a "Declaration of Democratic Independence," phrased with care not to desecrate the original, in which they petitioned the President and Congress...
When the Senators emerged after more than an hour, the Isolationists among them -North Dakota's Nye, Missouri's Clark, North Carolina's Reynolds-were fuming. The President had bound them to "secrecy" and that, said Senator Nye, "when there is so much that ought to be said, is something more than distressing...
...National Defense program and other important legislation. No such giants of debate as Woodrow Wilson faced loomed against him. Instead of Henry Cabot Lodge I, Philander Knox and Missouri's irreconcilable, tigerish Jim Reed, the 1939 President faced only relatively mild characters like Missouri's Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Nye, North Carolina's clownish Reynolds (see p. 16), and Henry Cabot Lodge II, bright but time-abiding. The great Isolationists of yore, Idaho's Borah and California's Johnson, were still on the scene (although Borah had grippe last week) but neither...
...Hollywood's reluctance to offend, but merely to its intense eagerness to make profits. Author Sherwood, as familiar with the screen as he is with the stage, was well aware that no ideology this side of Heaven is nearly as important to cinema audiences as the spectacle of Clark Gable embracing Norma Shearer for the first time since they both appeared in Strange Interlude (1932). Consequently, he devoted the first three reels of Idiot's Delight to establishing the fact that they had once shared a hotel bedroom in Omaha, Neb., and most of the rest to indicating...
...probably include Charley Smith and Bob Gammons, who did 5.5 in the 60 yard dash at the Millrose Games; Mason Fernald, veteran hurdler; Steve Madey, dark-horse pole-vaulter and erstwhile softball pitching wizard, who should top 13 feet; Charley Oldfather, lanky Sophomore who will run the 1000; Gene Clark, who last year covered the mile stretch in 4.25; Pen Tuttle, whose entrance in the two mile run is doubtful after an illness earlier this week; and Bob Partlow, Sophomore broad and high jump flash, who does around 22 feet, 6 inches in the former event, and should...