Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft talk brought some hard thoughts to many a worried U.S. head. Senate Majority Leader William Knowland feared that the U.S. might be admitting a Communist "Trojan horse." General Mark Clark, former commander of United Nations forces in Korea, warned that a "tough" approach to Communism is the best way to prevent another...
...have never felt the urge to write a letter to TIME until I read Max J.K. Clark's letter in your Nov. 8 issue. It is a masterpiece. As long as we have Max J.K. Clarks, things will be all right with these United States . . . His slice of Americana [is] superlative...
...behalf of at least a million of your readers: Did Max J.K. Clark give the Wall-Street-bound panhandler the two bits...
Died. Edward Clark Carter, 76, secretary-general of the Institute of Pacific Relations during the turbulent '30s and '40s when it numbered among its staff such controversial left-wingers as Millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Professor Owen Lattimore; in Manhattan. An early proponent of better U.S. understanding of Asia (and the wartime head of Russian War Relief), Carter denied during a 1951 Senate investigation that he was or had ever been a Communist, testified that the I.P.R. had rejected suggestions by Lattimore in the late '30s that it support Communism in China and Russia...
...meeting adjourned in some confusion, with no candidate clearly in mind. After much bickering, regrets and elimination, the name of State Senator Leader eventually bobbed to the surface. As a Yorkman, Leader belonged to neither the Gogs of Philadelphia nor Magogs of Pittsburgh. Clark and Dilworth admired Leader's liberal views; Boss Green decided he had discovered Leader; Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence, who is also Democratic national committeeman, found him politically impeccable. Farmer Leader seemed an excellent choice to soften up the farm vote for a Democratic sweep in 1958. Thus, almost by default, George Leader...