Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Party, as it stands today, may be enjoying its last year as an effective political party, Mayor Joseph S. Clark, Jr. '23 (D) of Philadelphia asserted last night...
Comparing the G.O.P. to the Whig Party of the late 1840's, Clark said, "In 1848 the Whigs ran without a platform, with only General Zachary Taylor, a military hero. They won that election, but never won again." The Republican Party may well follow the pattern of dissolution that the Whigs experienced, he added...
Crossing plains teeming with buffalo, and badlands and canyons filled with antelope, deer and elk, they reached the trappers' legendary Roche Jaune River (Yellowstone). Then came the Milk, the Judith, which Clark named for his future wife, and the Marias, which Lewis named "in honour of Miss Maria W-d." though "the hue of the waters ... but illy comport with the pure celestial virtues and amiable qualifications of that lovely fair one." At night on the plains, the ground around them shook from the stomping herds of buffalo, and once a buffalo bull bellowed into their camp and trampled...
...climax came one day when the canoes were plowing through rain, fog and high, rolling waves near the mouth of the Columbia. For an instant the mist parted, and the men sighted the Pacific ("O! the joy," Clark noted). On the Oregon shore, they built a salt cairn and wintered. Clark cut his name on a pine tree and added (in case they didn't make it back): "By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805." They celebrated Christmas and New Year's among coastal tribes with flattened heads, who made life miserable by pilfering their supplies...
...four: the Rev. George L. Fox, Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, the Rev. Clark V. Poling, and Father John P. Washington...