Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulling the boners which kept him in continual hot water for the first year and a half of his term, Harry Truman now never makes a decision the first time an important problem is brought to him. The question first goes for study to his four-man staff: Adviser Clark Clifford, Assistant John Steelman (still a White House big shot despite his labor bobbles), Secretaries Charlie Ross (press) and Matt Connelly (agenda). Clifford decides what Cabinet officers or other Administration officials should be called in for consultation, sets up a special subcommittee to chew on the problem. Major policy questions...
...that the deputies for Austria be asked to submit their report. Molotov objected: "The Austrian deputies may not be prepared to report on such short notice." Whereupon Marshall snapped in his crispest military tone: "The American deputy will be ready." Half an hour later, the American deputy (General Mark Clark) was told at his hotel to make a progress report next day. Cried he, aghast: "We made a report on London. You mean progress here?" Then he stalked off to write a report...
Added Dr. Dean A. Clark, medical director of New York City's Health Insurance Plan: "How many [doctors] remember that a wife's relation to her husband, or to her dreary isolation in household tasks, a man's reaction to his job or his wages or his living quarters, a child's to his parents or his school, may be the clue to a major illness...
Prewar Jubilees attracted national notice, and 1939 saw the notorious gold-fish-eating craze start here to sweep the country within a few weeks. Ingenious Irving M. Clark '41 captured undisputed Cambridge laurels by gulping 26 fish and craftily disqualifying an illegitimate M.I.T. entry who slipped 42 undersized creatures down his gullet...
Social Sciences: Mary Lou Bensley 2G, Elizabeth P. Clark 1G, Robert G. Layer 2G, Bruno J. Palmer-Poroner 1G, Janet Reinertson 2G, Andrew E. Rice 1G, O. Glenn Saxon 1G, J. Schachter 1G, Winton U. Solberg 1G, Richard N. Swift 1G, Jackson Toby 1G, Warren Wilhelm...