Word: clemently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Pacifist Lansbury resigned as Leader, declaring: "I personally cannot see any difference between mass murder organized by the League of Nations and mass murder. ... I have passed my seventy-sixth year, and younger men may carry on." In, as Leader of Labor pro tern, stepped colorless, unimaginative Major Clement Attlee, an acceptable parliamentary wheelhorse, just the man to lose a General Election. In disgust left-wing British Laborites, the small but vigorous Independent Labor Party, manifestoed: "The real issue lies solely between two imperialisms in Africa-British Imperialism and Italian Imperialism. Workers, beware! Sanctions may develop into...
...technology was Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, richest man in Pennsylvania, that in 1866 he founded Lehigh University. Spread over a hillside above smoky Bethlehem, Lehigh has always made a specialty of engineering. Founder Packer would have beamed last week upon the election as Lehigh's president of Clement Clarence Williams, 53, dean of the College of Engineering at University of Iowa, once an active civil engineer. Succeeding Dr. Charles Russ Richards, President-elect Williams will take office October...
Early this year the tightest wad who was ever Governor of the Bank of France, fusty "abnormally honest" M. Clement Moret, gave way to that slightly looser wad, sandy-mustached M. Jean Tannery, amid uneasy rumors of "inflation" (TIME, Jan. 14). Since then France has changed cabinets and new Premier Pierre Laval is not tinged as was old Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin with any suspicion of wanting to perpetrate a New Deal âl'americaino. With Parliament adjourned and the new Cabinet embarked on a drastic program of balancing the budget and reducing the cost of life's necessities...
Nathaniel C. ("Nat") Murray, 72, crop estimator for Clement, Curtis & Co., Chicago brokers. Slender, scholarly, pipe-sucking, he inherited his eye for crops from his father who was editor & publisher of the Cincinnati Price Current. Forecaster Murray started with the Department of Agriculture, whose crop reporting section he headed from 1920 to 1923. The Canadian wheat pool is said to have considered Nat Murray's crop estimates better than the U. S. Government's. His record for accuracy is best illustrated by the fact that the average of. his final crop predictions over an eight year period matched the Government...
...employed in slack times for fear of losing what few skilled lace-makers there are in the U. S. And wearing gay lace boutonnieres, 500 of them appeared in Washington to join their employers in protest. Spokesman for lace employees, however, was not a labor leader: but Executive Director Clement J. Driscoll of the American Lace Manufacturers Association. Said...