Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Francis Clement Powers of the twice-beaten Ulenmen, long known around the Holyoke Street baths as "The Pro" definitely earned his old handle and as an added attraction established himself among the nation's top trio of collegiate middle distance swimmers as a result of his two upset victories last week over Yale's great sprinter, Howie Johnson...
...Government thought this over. Finally it gave its answer through prim, schoolmasterish Lord Privy Seal Clement R. Attlee. Rasped the Lord Privy Seal like a tired tutor: "Nine p.m., British time, is not 9 p.m. throughout the Empire. It is inappropriate to broadcast nine strokes of Big Ben when it is 6 a.m. in Australia and the middle of the night in India...
...leaders, thanks to the war emergency, have vastly increased their political power. Therefore, the avowed aims and purposes of the British Labor Party, collected from recent statements and resolutions, make interesting reading. There are pronouncements by Laborites Arthur Greenwood, Herbert Morrison (Minister of Home Security), Philip Noel Baker, Clement Attlee, Hugh Dalton, Leonard Woolf and Harold Laski...
...agreed on one point-Hitler must be liquidated before British capitalism, but not long before. Says soft-spoken Party Leader Clement Attlee: "Nazi aggression must be stopped, but something more is needed. . . . War is the result of an anarchic world system. Unless we can change that system, war will continue." British labor's work chart for changing the system and bringing in the New Order: 1) No dictated peace; 2) a federated Europe; 3) an international socialist super-government backed up by a super-police; 4) "Bold economic planning on a worldwide scale...
...Clement Attlee...