Word: claytons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin is winning the cold war," warned white-thatched Will Clayton, onetime Under Secretary of State. "Even if we should be so fortunate as to escape another shooting war there will hardly be any occasion for great rejoicing if we find ourselves . . . isolated politically and eco nomically, our friends picked off one by one and added to Russia's satellites...
Sincerity & Good Will. Clayton was speaking for the Atlantic Union Committee, headed by former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts. Atlantic Union was a lineal descendant of Union Now, founded and expounded by Clarence Streit, longtime crusader for a union of free peoples. Its blueprint envisioned a political, military and economic federation of the original seven North Atlantic Treaty nations (U.S., Canada, Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg...
...very unhappy," said Dr. Harold Clayton Urey, the Nobel Prizewinning atomic chemist, "to conclude that the hydrogen bomb should be developed and built. I do not think we should intentionally lose the armaments race; to do this will be to lose our liberties, and with Patrick Henry, I value my liberties more than I do my life...
FEPC supporters made one more effort. Freshman Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. announced that he hoped to get a House majority-218 signatures-to a petition to pry the bill loose from committee. He was immediately sat upon by Manhattan's Adam Clayton Powell, one of the two House Negroes and author of the FEPC bill...
...Will Clayton, the plant was the logical outgrowth of doing business in Mexico. Anderson, Clayton has been buying Mexican cotton for 27 years, has helped push the nation's annual output from 200,000 to over 800,000 bales by crop loans to farmers. Since the company owns 22 cotton gins, five edible-oil mills and an oil refinery in Mexico, the food business is the natural outlet for its oil production. With $4,000,000 allotted for expansion of his Mexican business in 1950, Clayton hopes to see Mexico's cotton crop grow...