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Among Democrats, Tennessee's 35-year-old Governor Frank Clement is a man to watch-and to hear. With a rafter-quaking oratorical style. Clement hopes to roll his throbbing clauses to the vice-presidency this year. A typical Clement peroration: "Once in this world, a lonely figure climbed a cross-marked hill, and went from there into an airless tomb. He was the foe of lies, dishonor, theft and treachery. He was the champion of truth, honor, faith and bravery. It is my fervent prayer that I can so live as to be worthy of His sacrifice...
...Clement's vice-presidential strategy is fairly well set up. By withholding Tennessee's delegate vote from Home-Stater Estes Kefauver, Clement thinks he can win the favor of front-running Candidate Adlai Stevenson. With the help of his great admirer, Harry S. Truman, Clement hopes to land the coveted convention assignment as Democratic keynote speaker. From that platform Clement is certain that his talented tongue can get him onto a Stevenson-Clement ticket...
...political symbol because "some people think it's a little undignified." Thrown behind schedule by handshakers at Portsmouth, Estes glowed, "Now I know why it's so pleasant to campaign in New Hampshire." Not so pleasant was his situation in home-state Tennessee, where Governor Frank Clement was making plans to go to Chicago as a favorite-son candidate, thereby leaving Kefauver out in the cold...
Successor to Clement Attlee as leader of Britain's Labor Party and a future Prime Minister if Labor should return to power: Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell...
...striking 11 and some Labor M.P.s were still straggling into the House of Commons committee room when Clement Attlee rose from his place and said in his most curt, acid-drop manner: "Before proceeding to the main business for which you have been called, I have a statement to make." Wasting no words, 72-year-old Clem Attlee resigned as leader of the Labor Party, sat down...