Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scurrying between the White House and the old State Building, all of these advisers live carefully compartmented lives. They see little of each other socially. They are divided roughly in their thinking between the Clifford philosophy of frontal attack and the Steelman philosophy that the better and safer attack is an oblique one. But the difference is principally in method, not in ideology. It is not enough to interrupt the almost noiseless ticking of the Little Cabinet's well-oiled clockwork...
George Elsey, 31, is a fresh-faced Princeton graduate who worked in Franklin Roosevelt's White House map room during the war, buckled down afterwards as a researcher for Clifford During the 1948 campaign he wrote the backgrounds and many of the punch lines for Harry Truman's speeches in his 31,500-mile campaign. He is now one of the men at work researching, rewriting and polishing the State of the Union, budget and economic messages which the President will deliver to the new session of the 81st Congress...
David Lloyd, 38, another Clifford protégé, is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Clifford found him working on the Democratic National Committee, turning out what Clifford thought was "stuff with real style." Now Lloyd, whose first novel will be published in the spring, puts some of that style into Harry Truman's pedestrian speeches...
...Aberhart and the frail farm youth studied together, first the Scriptures, then more worldly books. When the depression was at its height they read Maurice Colbourne's Unemployment or War, expounding the theory of Social Credit for the redistribution of wealth, as originated by England's Major Clifford Douglas. Aberhart and Manning decided it was the answer to Alberta's problems...
Into Cox's job at Carnegie will go Clifford F. Hood, 55, president of American Steel & Wire of Cleveland, another Big Steel subsidiary. Hood's former job will be filled by American Steel's vice president in charge of operations, Harvey B. Jordan...