Word: clemently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was hot in most of the U. S. In Phoenix, Ariz, it was 108°. From Arizona State Prison, lying in well-wooded mountain country near Florence, Warden John Eager wired Governor Rawghlie Clement Stanford: "It is a situation I can no longer control." The Governor hastily sent the National Guard to build a stockade near the prison. Reason: Because of a shortage of cells 200 trusties have been sleeping outside the prison walls, 15 had escaped in six weeks, five more had just escaped. Said Warden Eager: "You can't call it an escape, exactly...
Died. Sally Clement Bridges, 35, second wife of Senator Henry Styles Bridges of New Hampshire; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Concord, N. H. Informed of his wife's sudden illness, Senator Bridges flew from Washington to Concord (375 miles), arrived six minutes too late...
During the Revolutionary War one Clement Corbin fought with the Connecticut Regulars. Mr. Corbin might have become a famed hero, a traitor or a general. He did none of the three and was ignored by U. S. history until last week when, after 150 years, the ultimate result of his pugnacity finally became apparent in Washington, D. C. It was that his great-great-granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Martyn Robert Jr. of Annapolis, Md. was elected President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution...
...ever assembled on stage or screen. He himself plays Francis I of France and Napoleon III. His wife, Jacqueline Delubac, is Mary Queen of Scots and the Empress Josephine. Of the rest Veteran Actor Lyn Harding's Henry VIII is brief but good, Actor Ermete Zacconi's Clement VII is great...
Meanwhile, Laborites proposed a motion of censure, which if carried would call for the fall of the Cabinet. The Leader of the Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, shrilled: "Mussolini is a bankrupt dictator, yet it is just at this time that the Prime Minister goes whining to him for an agreement on any terms...