Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homespun, frontier-born Dafoe distrusted noise, excitement and quick results. His tools were tireless industry, forceful writing, lust for information. He found his spiritual home in Winnipeg, when the Free Press's owner, Sir Clifford Sifton, gave him a free hand as editor. When Sir Clifford broke with Canada's great Liberal French leader, Laurier, on the issue of U.S.-Canadian reciprocity, Dafoe supported Laurier. But when Laurier failed to support conscription in World War I, Dafoe broke with him, threw the Free Press weight behind Conservative Sir Robert Borden...
...Small Name. In Valley Falls, N.Y., Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances, arrived from Troy, moved into his new home, found his next-door neighbor is Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances...
...AFFAIR "OF THE FAINTING BUTLER -Clifford Knight - Dodd, Mead...
Last week, not yet 17, Staff Sergeant Clifford R. Wherley, his chest bright with medal and campaign ribbons, leaned back in War Secretary Stimson's office chair, sitting before Robert Todd Lincoln's old desk, and received the press. Still under age, Hero Wherley was being discharged from the Air Forces. But before his uniform and stripes are put away, Cliff will make a nationwide morale tour. The story he has to tell is a boy's dream in Technicolor. The Army believes it will spur a landslide of 17-year-old enlistments. Cliff Wherley...
...date Clifford Johnson's treatment has cost more than $10,000, half of it contributed by the Red Cross for nursing. But his recovery has been of immeasurable value to U.S. medicine. Says Dr. Lund: "We learned more from Johnson about the treatment of burns than has been learned from any other single patient...