Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squabble grew so hot that in May Canada's embassy in Washington asked Secretary of State Marshall for assistance in preventing any undesirable interference with Canadian companies. Nevertheless, as late as Oct. 10 bumbling U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark was considering contempt proceedings. Asked for his reaction on such a step, Secretary Marshall pointed out that the affair has aroused "considerable concern" in Canada. That was enough for Clark. Instead of contempt crackdowns, he sent top Department officials to Ottawa to confer with Canadian newsprint interests...
...Freshmen are starting with only one standout, former Middlesex star Joe Clark, but the picture there is not as bleak as it sounds, for Coach Corey Winn is used to moulding his squads from players new to the game, and feels he has plenty of "potentialities" among his candidates...
...Clark Clifford had talked to Steelman, who talked to Secretary of Commerce Harriman and Economist Edwin Nourse. Steelman, with economists, retired behind the closed door. An Administration official sighed: "I'm afraid the President went...
...fame of Klamath Falls has spread. Last week, hunters from as far away as Chicago swarmed into town. The natives were particularly scornful of what they call "California hunters,"* who swarm across the border, led by a Hollywood contingent in fancy hunting togs. Among movieland duck hunters: Clark Gable and Andy Devine...
...novels on industry, the clipper ships, the rail roads, the Oregon Trail, immigration, the discovery of gold or oil, the movies, radio, or the New Deal. Readers could get good, solidly based historical novels on the fall of Rome or the battle of Waterloo, but not of the Lewis & Clark expedition...