Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nations and collective security. Labor was in no mood to forgo any of its privileges for the sake of national rearmament. Big business was in no mood to foot the rearmament bill. Winston Churchill might rave and rumble about the Nazi danger. But the Labor Party's Major Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison (now Minister of Supply) struck more popular poses as humanitarians, League of Nations advocates, good Europeans. Meanwhile the Conservative Party ran the Government, held the slippery balance of power by buttering wishful pacifist hopes...
When LIFE'S close-up first appeared, one week last month, reactions among Negroes were generally friendly. Out of 16 letters in Earl Brown's mail, 13 (from Negro readers like President Rufus E. Clement of Atlanta University, North Carolina's Sportswriter Dave Hawkins) praised Author Brown for a good job. Said Joe Louis, according to a friend in Detroit: "I ain't read it yet. If he makes something out of it, let him make it. I make mine fighting...
...meeting in London to discuss home defense, Clement Davies, M. P. stormed: "Any schoolboy who can throw a cricket ball can throw a bomb. Women should have grenades with which to defend their homes and babies." - Correct: "Labor omnia vincit...
...trouble convincing his patients that he was old enough to operate. Last week, still bursting with youthful energy, he celebrated his 60th birthday. At a party he was given a surprise ceremonial Birthday Volume of scientific articles by 59 of his colleagues, including such noted men as Drs. Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic, Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern, George Washington Crile of Cleveland. While his guests lit their cigars and settled back in their chairs, the doors to the dining hall opened wide and in trooped 50 of Dr. Lahey's friends, bearing a mammoth birthday cake...
Henry C. Clark '11, Richard C. Floyd '11, F. Wadsworth Busk '16, Henry L. F. Kreger '16, David P. Morgan '16, Walter W. Weld '16, Alexander Winsor '16, Robert Baldwin '17, Graham B. Blaine '17, Clement K. Stodder '17, S. Abbot Smith '18, William B. Snow '18, Thomas D. Cabot '19, Francis A. Caswell '19, Henry C. Flower, Jr. '19, Francis W. Hatch '19, Frederic K. Bullard '20, Frederic C. Church, Jr. '20, Richard Saltonstall '20, Edward L. Bigelow '21, Henry H. Faxon '21, Dwight P. Robinson...