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According to rules governing the award of the prize, established by the late Percival Wood Clement, governor of Vermont, each essay should not exceed 3000 words in length. The papers must be submitted by April...
Later, his birthday and the hunt behind him, Churchill stood up on the floor of the House of Commons and, amid grave silence from his colleagues, demanded from Prime Minister Clement Attlee an account of the Labor government's stewardship over the nation's moldering defenses...
...What have we got to show for it [?305 million voted for the army during 1948]?" Then, looking at Attlee, "I ask the Prime Minister that question. I see that he is likely to reply." "No," said Clement Attlee...
Twenty years ago a cocky youngster named Clement George McCullagh quit his job as assistant financial editor on the old Toronto Globe, to get into the million-dollar deals that he had been writing about on Toronto's Bay Street. His boss warned him against it, but McCullagh's mind was made up. "The next time I come in," he boasted, "I'll be buying this newspaper out from under...
...machinery of such solemn decisions grinds slow and small. Some 200 years ago, a monk wrote to Pope Clement XIII begging him to define the bodily Assumption of Mary as "a most certain dogma of faith." Clement passed the matter on to the Holy Office. In 1863, Spain's Queen Elizabeth made the same request. Pius IX, though recognizing the Queen's good intentions, was somewhat annoyed at a temporal sovereign's interference in sacred matters. He replied: "I am not worthy to publish such a dogma. The wishes of Your Majesty, the holy wishes of Your...