Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change in Climate. Being neither a philosopher nor an economist, practical Harry Truman did not bother to characterize his program in philosophical terms. Actually, the State of the Union message, put together by Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford and polished by Sam Rosenman, old Roosevelt speech-polisher, was a familiar and almost dogged reiteration of virtually everything Harry Truman had been recommending for the past two years. Obviously what made everyone sit up and take notice of it this time was the fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number...
...tide of the war in China, Bullitt said, requires American direction and control, exercised by "a fighting general of the highest qualities, with an adequate staff of able officers." He thought that General Douglas MacArthur could do the job quickest. But he also mentioned as prospects, General Mark W. Clark, and Lieut. Generals Albert C. Wedemeyer and J. Lawton Collins. He called for the revival of the volunteer "Flying Tigers," and urged Congress to appropriate $800,000,000 for China, chiefly in military...
When he enlisted in the Navy, Clark Council Hamilton, a fair-skinned, brown-eyed young fellow, listed himself as a white man. Last year, after he got out of the service, he went to Roanoke, Va., married a redheaded, 19-year-old white girl named Florence Hammond, whom he had met while she was selling popcorn at a local movie house. Florence's family were semiliterate Virginia dirt farmers. At first they welcomed Clark. But after a while his mother-in-law began to resent him-she still wanted Florence tied to her apron strings...
Hamilton insisted that he was white and that he had been born in California rather than Russellville (where records showed that a Clark Council Hamilton Jr., colored, had been born in 1928). His wife believed him, refused to listen to her mother's demands that she get a divorce. But her mother had a final weapon-she swore to a complaint against Hamilton...
...Rutgers, an assistant professor and an instructor have been added to the faculty and form a department under Professor C. R. Clark...