Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of four hard-working meetings, soberly and thoughtfully attended to draw up a charter for racial cooperation. The men and women who attended them make up a roster of first-rate Southern leaders. Among them: Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, Field Secretary, Commission on Interracial Cooperation; President Rufus E. Clement, Atlanta University; President Mordecai Johnson, Howard University; Editor Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution; Bishop Arthur J. Moore, Atlanta; President Frederick D. Patterson, Tuskegee Institute...
Died. Josiah Clement ("Josh") Wedgwood, 71, Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston, great-great grandson of the famed pottery's founder, Member of Parliament (a Liberal and later a Laborite) for 36 years; in London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
Often scotched but never killed has been the widespread lie that Britain has let the men of her Colonies and Dominions do most of her fighting. Last week, when Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced casualty figures for the Empire, the lie was nailed: between Sept. 3, 1939 and Sept. 3, 1942, British Empire fighting forces lost 514,993 men in killed, wounded, missing and prisoners. Of these, 275,844 were from the United Kingdom, 239,149 from the Dominions and Colonies...
...join in the joyful clangor. From some of the 1,200 blitzed parishes the bells are gone; others hang in belfries so weakened that they cannot be pulled. From most of Sir Christopher Wren's famed churches in the City of London came no sound. St. Clement Dane's ("Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's") were still.* Silent, too, were the famous Bow bells of Cheapside, within whose sound all Cockneys were once born...
...shrewish organizer of defeat. In Britain, Sheean walked past the workmen stringing barbed vire around the Houses of Parliament. "So it's come to this, has it?" said Lady Diana Cooper, "in that curiously husky voice;" Inside Parliament Sheean heard history made by "a colorless voice." It was Clement Attlee reading the one-sentence law which declared that for the duration all persons and property were at the disposal of the state. Said H. G. Wells "rather happily" at lunch next day: "The revolution in England has now begun...