Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First they nominate Clifford Case, Then they throw Howell in the race...
Sailboat on Wheels. As Clifford Case faces this sharply barbed array of political circumstances, he has little reason for shock. He is deeply rooted in New Jersey history, political and nonpolitical. At least six generations of Cases have lived in New Jersey. Clifford's great-grandfather, Peter Case, was a court crier in Somerset County a century ago. His uncle, Clarence E. Case, now living in retirement in Somerville, was a state senator and for 23 years a State Supreme Court Justice...
From his lawyer-politician uncle, Case acquired at least part of his bent for the law and for politics; from his father, the Rev. Clifford Case Sr., a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, he acquired a deep interest in public affairs and a solid set of Christian principles...
...Clifford Case Sr. was pastor of the Six Mile Run* Dutch Reformed Church at Franklin Park, N.J. when his first son was born on April 16, 1904. Clifford Jr., his brother and four sisters grew up in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. in a home that was not prosperous but was pleasant. The Rev. Case was not a formal man. When Clifford Jr. found a diagram for a sailboat on wheels, his father helped him build one in the attic. The sight of Pastor Case riding down the street with two or three of his children in the hybrid vehicle...
Grandfather "Buddy." Young Clifford turned to books and music, and at an early age acquired a reputation for independent thinking. The class prophecy of the Poughkeepsie High School class of 1921 said: "On March 4, 1941, the people of the United States will have at their head a most efficient executive department consisting of the following members . . . Vice President Clifford Case, with his negative view of facts, will serve as a check on the President. His good nature, however, and his stubborn hair will keep the Cabinet happy and harmonious...