Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, July 24--Congressional Republicans, stalled in moves for a Senate investigation, were forced today to drop the idea of a House inquiry into Attorney General Clark's handling of the Kansas City vote fraud charges...
...According to your statement of Clark Lee, made in his new book, the Army doctor asked who had moved Tojo . . . causing blood to gush from his wounds [TIME, June 16]. The Army doctor mentioned in this article asked no such question. Blood had not gushed from Tojo's wound. Neither did that doctor commend the gentlemen of the press for moving Tojo, nor did he make such an erroneous statement as, "If that blood hadn't drained out, it would have filled his lungs and drowned him." Nothing could have been further from the truth...
...Hucksters (M-G-M), an adaptation of Frederic Wakeman's blustering, best-selling assault on radio advertising, hands Clark Gable his first good job since demobilization, and presents Britain's beautiful Deborah Kerr (TIME, Feb. 10) in her first U.S. film...
...shrewder stuff. There are viciously funny glimpses of a commercial photographer, a comedian (Keenan Wynn), an actor's agent (Edward Arnold) and two skilled script-plumbers; and the singing commercials are as horribly funny as the real thing. Ava Gardner is lush as the nightclub singer and Clark Gable plays his huckster firmly...
...declare, when war came in 1939, that "there is no isolation or neutrality any more." From then on he was Franklin Roosevelt's man. On one occasion, Roosevelt called him "America's spiritual ambassador of good will" to front-line troops of all the Allies. His son, Clark, was one of the U.S. chaplains killed in World War II.* His latest extracurricular activity: membership in President Truman's committee on universal military training...