Word: clement
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Publishing House. Pendle Hill is also an active publishing enterprise. This venture, now in general charge of Clement Alexandre, an able and articulate young English non-Quaker, has broken even with a list of some 30 pamphlets and half a dozen books. Most of them are written by Friends, and expound Quakerly thought on current economic and social problems, and Quaker religious practices and history. Pendle Hill is thus the Society's chief U.S. publishing center...
Conscience v. Party Line. The immediate issue was capital punishment for murder. But to the House of Lords, and to Prime Minister Clement Attlee's government, there was a larger stake. It was the dramatic recurrence of the old feud between the hereditary Lords and the elected Commons...
...Clement Attlee's cabinet had been against abolishing capital punishment, but when the subject came up in the House of Commons (TIME, April 22), the government adopted a hands-off policy and permitted Labor members to vote according to conscience, and not according to party line...
...Francis of Assisi sent a group of his Friars Minor to the Holy Land in 1217. When the Crusaders left Palestine, the Franciscans stayed behind, to guard the Christian shrines. In 1342 Pope Clement VI confirmed them as official guardians of the Holy Places on behalf of the Roman Catholic world.† Last week they sent out a call for help...
...Employers in Fear." Day after day, Clement Attlee sat slouched on his spine, taking in five-minute speeches from scores of delegates, speeches for the most part well organized, lucid and obviously sincere. Behind him on the platform sat Mrs. Attlee, knitting. She likes short speeches, even when her husband makes them. Sir Stafford Cripps, whom some call an economic dictator, sat modestly behind a row of executive committee members-he is not a member of the executive-and was not invited to speak. Nor did he ask to take part...