Word: clark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentlest, most winning of the Presidential sons. Anne is no great beauty but full of spirit, a good sailor, swimmer and dancer. When Johnny first presented her to his father, he said: "This is Miss Schmaltz." "Oh!" exclaimed the President, "I thought it was Zilch." The late F. Haven Clark, Anne's father, was a Boston banker. He had a place on Campobello Island, N. B. straight across the road from the Roosevelts'. But Anne became engaged to another boy, John interested in another girl. Not till last year did they take to one another...
...known since Roosevelt I paused there in 1902 to visit Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's grandfather. Anne's Boston background is thoroughly Republican (though not so dramatically Tory as Ethel du Font's) but many a Bostonian declined an invitation to the wedding reception. Startled Mother Clark, after planning for 400 guests, received White House requests for 550 invitations, most of which were accepted. The Secret Service cautiously wired off the narrow causeway leading out to the village from the mainland, made guests walk to the church. Cars there were for the bride & groom's families...
...groom, who had spent a hot & bothered week answering questions about his bride's and mother's clothes, reporters were finally able to see for themselves Mrs. Roosevelt in voluminous Navy-and-Eleanor blue, the bridesmaids in hyacinth blue net, the maid-of-honor (Sally Clark) in peach net, the bride's mother in dove gray crepe. Soon after high noon, Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts and old Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, who married Johnny's parents 33 years ago, joined in performing the ceremony. Leaving the altar, Anne caught Brother...
...because he was then campaigning for election. This April the trustees confirmed their decision before Governor Moore's political godfather, Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, was spotlighted for suppression of C.I.O. and civil liberty in Jersey City. A Princeton trustee mentioned the decision to Federal Judge William Clark-who is presiding over Jersey City's civil liberties suit. Judge Clark dropped the news in conversation at the 19th hole of Princeton's golf club...
...Judge Clark's court at Newark, the trial of Boss Hague ran through its third week. Besides being New Jersey's Democratic boss and Jersey City's mayor, Frank Hague is Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which gratefully accepted $270,000 from C.I.O.'s cornerstone, the United Mine Workers of America, for its 1936 campaign. Alert C.I.O. Lawyer Morris Ernst asked Vice Chairman Hague if he would repudiate, for example, the C.I.O. supporters of Democratic Senator Alben Barkley in Kentucky, of Democratic Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan...