Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...savagely attacks Joe Clark, describing him as a "bubblegum candidate" whose membership in Americans for Democratic Action means involvement "in a powerful leftwing and underground activity." When he is accused of unfair tactics, Big Red merely snorts: "You can't hit Joe Clark below the belt because he is all belly and no head." Midnightly, Jim Duff can still be found shaking hands in hotel lobbies or sweating away on the next day's speeches, which he insists on writing himself...
...Ranting & Roaring." Joe Clark, 55, is an all-out, unabashed liberal. "A liberal," he once wrote, "is one who believes in utilizing the full force of government for the advancement of social, political and economic justice at the municipal, state, national and international levels." With Richardson Dilworth. who succeeded him as mayor, and Jim Finnegan. now Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager. Clark led the revolt that turned Philadelphia from a Republican stronghold into a Democratic bastion...
...politician, lean Ivy Leaguer (Harvard '23) Joe Clark is equally at home tossing off a bourbon and water with the boys in the back room, talking earnestly and persuasively to small groups of do-gooders, or delivering the sort of spread-eagle oratory that Clark himself sometimes calls "ranting and roaring." His most effective issue so far has been Jim Duff's Senate absenteeism. Pointing to an empty chair on the speaker's platform, Clark cries: "That's where the junior Senator from Pennsylvania is supposed to be sitting, but he is almost never there...
Presidential Rescue. If Joe Clark is to sit in Duff's chair, it will be despite a tongue" that sometimes lands him in trouble. In Pittsburgh, the home town of patronage-powerful Mayor David Lawrence, Clark went out of his way to denounce Pennsylvania's spoils system as run both by Republicans and by Governor George Leader's Democratic administration. But such is the unity of Pennsylvania's Democratic Party (a unity due in large measure to the enjoyment of the patronage that Joe Clark derides) that Democrat Lawrence found himself able to laugh the whole...
...America met last week for their 20th biennial convention in Harrisburg, Pa., good news came from Hungary. "The Presidential Council of the Supreme Court," growled Radio Budapest, "has declared Lajos Ordass not guilty for lack of evidence." The news was particularly gratifying to Manhattan's Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, re-elected president last week for his seventh term. Last summer Dr. Fry, chairman of the central committee of the World Council of Churches was in Galyatetö, near Budapest, for a meeting of the committee (TIME, Aug. 13). Rehabilitation was in the air and the Reds were courting...