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...Lighted Sparkler. The Pennsylvania Railroad's grey-haired President Martin W. Clement, an arch-Republican, asked Democratic bigwigs to a garden party at the fashionable Merion Cricket Club. But the party seemed oddly like a waxworks exhibition. There, bowing and smiling and real as life, were scores of famous men who had already been politically embalmed...
...Deakin sat tight, hoping the strike would peter out. So, for days, did Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labor government. But British tempers frayed. Cried a Tory M.P.: "It's the most effective way the Communists have yet found of sabotaging simultaneously the Labor government and Marshall aid." Said a truck driver (and Transport Union member): "When I get down to the docks in the morning and see these silly buggers striking at the gates...
There was one lull before the big political storm. The major candidates went to suburban Rosemont for a "purely social meeting" at the home of Martin W. Clement, bony, white-haired president of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Publishing House. Pendle Hill is also an active publishing enterprise. This venture, now in general charge of Clement Alexandre, an able and articulate young English non-Quaker, has broken even with a list of some 30 pamphlets and half a dozen books. Most of them are written by Friends, and expound Quakerly thought on current economic and social problems, and Quaker religious practices and history. Pendle Hill is thus the Society's chief U.S. publishing center...
...Francis of Assisi sent a group of his Friars Minor to the Holy Land in 1217. When the Crusaders left Palestine, the Franciscans stayed behind, to guard the Christian shrines. In 1342 Pope Clement VI confirmed them as official guardians of the Holy Places on behalf of the Roman Catholic world.† Last week they sent out a call for help...