Word: clem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Violet Attlee, 53, comely, dynamic wife of Great Britain's Clem, enrolled for training in the ambulance section of London County's civil defense corps...
...Sooner than radio listeners became of him. As he had done a year ago with Derby Winner Ponder, gravel-voiced Radio Caller Clem McCarthy overlooked Middleground's stretch rush, barely got him under the wire...
Clement Attlee's Labor government last week faced its hardest important parliamentary test and every M.P. who could walk was in the House of Commons. Latecomers stood toe to heel in the back of the chamber. On Labor's front bench, little Clem Attlee, more inconspicuous than ever, was squeezed in between Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps...
Kentucky Derby (Sat. 5:15 p.m., CBS). Clem McCarthy calls the race from Churchill Downs...
Attlee knew he was elected by 2 a.m. Tensely, he made a little speech of thanks at Walthamstow's town hall. When Attlee came out of the hall and into the cold, wet morning, a woman admirer cried: "Good old Clem-Walthamstow's still loyal." Attlee laughed. At 4 a.m. his wife drove him to Labor headquarters at Transport House. Party Secretary Morgan Phillips was in charge of the tabulation. His staff, nibbling cheese sandwiches, greeted the first night's returns with restrained jubilation...