Word: clem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred Moseley rowed in the seven seat of the winning boat, with Link Boyden at six, George Walcott five, Clem Despard four, Nick Brown three, Lee Henderson two, John McLeod bow, and Al Lefkowits cox. Reuben Richards' boat came in second in 4:03, with Larry Brownell's eight third three seconds later. Bob Terry's boat was fourth and Tom Adams' last...
...Clem Attlee's tour served Labor well by reviving the class hatreds born in "the bad old days." One of Labor's political weaknesses is that a new generation is growing up with little experience of such "capitalist exploitation." At Labor meetings, sometimes as many as two-thirds are people in their 50s. Grumbled one old diehard: "The youngsters will ruin us. They're too young to remember Tory misrule...
Last week the pressures seemed to converge on Clem Attlee. Over the transatlantic phone, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell (attending the Washington and Ottawa conferences of the Big Three and NATO Council) told the Prime Minister that the dollar situation looked blacker than ever. Then came news that Nye Bevan and his party rebels were publishing a pamphlet, "Going Our Way," inciting trade unions to break with Attlee's policies. Finally Attlee announced: "I consider that the time has now come to ask the electors for a renewal of confidence in the government ... I have therefore asked...
Well Done. In Benton, Ill., Clem Cable tried to get the bees out of his eaves, lit some rags to make a smudge, burned his house to the ground...
...guilty only of bad judgment, expressed his continued confidence in him. But at week's end Chicago was ahum with investigations by Federal Internal Revenue agents, the Trotting Association, and the promise of a third one by the legislature itself. Said the Daily News's City Editor Clem Lane: "I suppose public officials will go on operating on the sordid principle that 'if it's legal, it's honest.' But at least we've been able to let the public in on what's going...