Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind these men, a boatload or so of other talent makes seating on next spring's first boat unpredictable. Both Bob Stone and Stu Clark, from the '42 Freshman crew, are back from service and bidding strong for the Varsity. Frank Cunningham, once of the '42 150's, and Sam Davis, from the combination crew of the same year, were also on the river this fall...
Permit me to place in nomination as Man of the Year one of the most brilliant military diplomats of our history-General Mark W. Clark...
...Clark, 47, tall, tireless but untried U.S. Attorney General who is up against his first big test. His prime legal asset: reluctance to file suits unless he is sure he can win them. A better than average student and athlete at the University of Texas, well-to-do, Dallas-born Tom Clark married a Texas coed, won every case he tried as Dallas's district attorney, became a protege of Senator Tom Connally. A dyed-in-the-wool, glad-handing Democrat, he joined the Department of Justice...
Just before Littlejohn testified before the committee, he had had a conference with Attorney General Tom C. Clark. If Tom Clark had held up the sale with the idea of the Government operating the lines till the coal strike was over, he gave no hint. With all the lobbying going on, he might only have intended to toss the hot potato into the new Congress...
...next maneuvers were stronger. After a Sunday session with his aides, Attorney General Clark screwed up his courage, went to the courts and got a temporary injunction restraining Lewis from ending his contract for at least nine days. Whether or not the miners would pay any attention to the injunction remained to be seen (at week's end, 32,000 had already walked out). If the injunction failed to stop Lewis, the Government would have but one move left-to invoke the Smith-Connally Act, and see if it could be enforced...