Word: clemently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the purest altruism. In last year's "peace ballot" more than 11,000,000 of them voted to support the League up to the hilt. Well aware of these figures, Liberals and Laborites united in heckling the Conservative Government with demands for stiffer Sanctions. Last week Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite Leader in Commons, popped off to Paris in an effort to persuade Socialist Leon Blum to come out strongly for a continuation of Sanctions (see below). He was promptly followed by Conservative Earl Winterton who rushed to Premier Sarraut, urged him to keep on demanding...
Like many another medical specialist, Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic suffers from the disease he cures in other people. In Dr. Alvarez' case the ailment is stomach ulcers. Last week, looking and feeling better than he has in years. Dr. Alvarez went to Atlantic City to attend a meeting of the American Gastro-Enterological Association, of which he was president in 1928 and which has a special lecture named in his honor...
...indebted to the women's vote and reluctant to sponsor openly the Government's thesis that British women in the Civil Service are already better paid than other British women, quietly sneaked out of the House. The alert leader of the Labor Opposition, Major Clement R. Attlee, did a little quick counting, called for a vote. The mighty British Conservative Government, possessor of a regular majority of 250, was beaten, 156-to-148. Literally, this meant that the Government must, over its own policy, proceed to give women civil servants equal pay. Since the House was then sitting...
First proposed by Leland Stanford in 1867, possibility of a bridge from San Francisco to Oakland was pooh-poohed for two generations. In 1929 President Hoover, whose Palo Alto home is in the Bay neighborhood, and California's Governor Clement Calhoun Young formed a bridge commission. The commission decided the bridge was physically possible. Reconstruction Finance Corp. made it financially so with a loan of $61,400,000. In July 1933, work began...
...first man in the Album is Charles F. Aber, Jr. and the last in Hyman W. Zussman. The longest lifeblank which was received was that of Francis J. Whitfield, class poet. There was one member who concentrated in romance, John Clement, hockey player. There was another in Walter Lawrence who makes the Dionne quintuplets look sick by proving that a man born last July can handle the Senior year at Harvard with a minimum of difficulty. Richard M. Starr caused the greatest concern by announcing that his only home is Kirkland House. Orville H. Emmons reported that...