Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grumbling, the Senate gave in-but not before it had lopped almost a half off the President's proposal, which the House had already approved. Cabinet officers were jumped from $15,000 to $22,500 a year (instead of the $25,000 Harry Truman requested); Presidential Aides Clark Clifford and John Steelman got raises to $20,000; White House Secretaries Charles G. Ross, William D. Hassett and Matt Connelly to $18,000. The under secretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau heads and commissioners who run Washington's alphabetical beehive were raised to $15,000 -approximately the amount Congressmen and Senators...
...starting lineups: HARVARD TUFTS Batchelder g Borghi Drake rfb Herold Harrop lib Dybiec Bell rhb Stauffer Pantaleoni chb O'Neill Miller ihb Glaffanos Weiss il Cratty Drehmel ir Morris Harvey ol Moulton Wolf or Clifford Spivak cf Bennett
Early in the week he had flown to Miami to the convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars, to read a speech appealing for support of his foreign military-aid program. It was the kind of routine, uninspired address that Speechwriter Clark Clifford can turn out in his sleep, designed to satisfy its hearers without making headlines. Back in Washington, the President signed the proclamation of the Atlantic pact, made another short speech: "No nation need fear the results of our cooperation ... On the contrary . . ." These functions he performed with earnest punctilio...
...suburban Montreal last week mechanics were outfitting a sturdy plane for a special mission. The plane, a type designed for use in Canada's own North country, had been ordered by Sir Miles Clifford, governor of the Falkland Islands. It would stand by as part of the plan to rescue eleven men marooned on Stonington Island inside the Antarctic Circle...
None of this was accomplished without Bowron's tramping on sensitive toes; he made scores of enemies. He was accused of being arbitrary, tactless and indecisive, and was variously described as 'Chubby Cheeks," "Fumbling Fletch," and "Bottleneck Bowron." He was even attacked by Cafeteria Owner Clifford Clinton, a vociferous reformer and the man who spent $72,000 to put Bowron into office. "Drab . . . colorless ... far from inspiring . . ." cried Clinton. "We were misled . . ." Clinton ran against him;-and lost...