Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the call came through to her Louisville home last week, Emma Clarissa Clement was off at a district church conference in Springfield, Ky. Her daughter took the message. Mrs. Clement had just been elected American Mother of 1946 by the Golden Rule Foundation. Said the citation: "A mother of children who are devotedly serving their country and their people, a partner in her husband's ministry in his lifetime, a social and community worker in her own right...
...Emma Clement, 71, widow of a bishop, could well be proud of her three daughters and four sons. All of them had graduated from Livingstone College in Salisbury, N.C., where she had been married on her own Commencement Day nearly 50 years ago. Four were now college professors-one of them a college president, another, a chaplain, just out of the Army with a major's commission. A fifth was still overseas as a Red Cross field director in Italy. Now her children could be prouder than ever...
...took a little while to get the call relayed to Mrs. Clement. She had to get the news of the honor that had come to her, and to her race, at the telephone office. There is only one telephone in the Negro section of Springfield...
...last week, as the bulldozers kept on snorting, the Earl had had enough. Off he went to London to protest in person to Clement Attlee. Solidly behind him was the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. In Wentworth village pubs the local tenantry shook their heads. Even the Yorkshire coal miners, led by union president Joseph Hall, voiced their objections. Said the Manchester Guardian approvingly: "The people of the north were deprived of space, light and beauty by the ravages of the industrial revolution ... it is evident that the miners attach a real value to the preservation...
...remaining snag was the presence of British troops in Indonesia. To liquidate this problem, Clark Kerr shepherded The Netherlands' rotund Premier, Willem Schermerhorn, across the Channel for a chat with Clement Attlee. From the talks came quick results and a crisp communique: "An agreement was reached as regards the measures still necessary to liquidate the war with Japan and the gradual withdrawal of British troops and their replacement by Dutch forces...