Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spot. Missouri's Republican Senator James P. Kem had long been needling Tom Clark for failure to act. Clark had insisted that a thorough, preliminary probe by the FBI had turned up no grounds for federal action (i.e., no conspiracy to deprive a voter of his rights in a federal election). But before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover testified that his investigation had been specifically restricted by Clark to examining the data uncovered by two Star reporters and four Kansas City election commissioners...
Then three federal judges* made unhappy Tom Clark even more unhappy. When a summary of the FBI and Star reports had been shown to them, the judges agreed that they had advised against grand jury action at the time. But they disagreed with Clark that that had been a valid reason for closing the case. They had all expected further investigation...
This week, as Republican Subcommittee Chairman Homer Ferguson shouted "whitewash" and recommended a full Senate investigation of Tom Clark's actions, the FBI was given a free hand in Kansas City. Meanwhile, Harry Truman insisted that the investigation be pushed to the limit. Cackled Republicans derisively : "Nobody in here but us chickens...
...female trouble," but widely sold to men who drank it straight). The A.M.A. considered the loss (if damages) a great moral victory. Soon afterward, when Fishbein became editor, he was encouraged to begin beating the bushes. Some of the odd game he flushed: a healer named Percival Lemon Clark, who attacked all diseases with a "sanatology blower" that was supposed to "dry clean the entire [internal] system"; a California dentist who called himself Painless Parker (use of the word "painless" was forbidden by law); a jack of all diseases named John Paul Fernel, who designed a "sleeping brassiere," for reducing...
Bedside Manners. "I pushed into the room," wrote pushy Clark Lee, an A.P. star who turned Hearstling (with I.N.S.) in midwar. "Tojo lay back in a small armchair, his eyes closed. . . . Blood oozed slowly from a wound just above his heart. . . . The American reporters pushed past Tojo, brushing his knees, talking loudly and excitedly. Photographers shoved their cameras in the wounded man's face...