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...Clifford E. Clinton, boyish owner of the "World's Largest Cafeteria" in downtown Los Angeles, customers brought so many tales of civic vice and dishonesty that last year he set up shop as a political reformer. With a few aroused sympathizers he hired a hard-boiled lawyer, Arthur Brigham Rose. Lawyer Rose hired an equally hard-boiled private investigator, Harry Raymond, onetime Los Angeles patrolman and later Police Chief of San Diego. By last week, Clifford Clinton and his cafeteria reform party had managed to stir up the biggest Los Angeles political stench in a decade...
...Apostle of Social Credit is British Major Clifford Hugh Douglas. The Douglas economic organization is a federal credit system in which the state supervises production and distribution and compensates for the differential between production and consumption by issuing money against the state's natural resources. Three years ago, this economic bootstrap-hoisting act was embraced by "Bible Bill." He entered the Alberta lists with a vigorous campaign which wedded radicalism with evangelicalism. He emerged with 56 Social Credit seats of the 63 in Alberta's Legislative Assembly and the premiership. But even with this overwhelming majority, "Bible Bill...
Sued for Divorce. Clifford Odets, 32, Leftist playwright (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty Golden Boy); by Luise Rainer, 26, Continental actress who won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences award in both 1936 and 1937 (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth); in Hollywood. Charges: he brooded, stayed away nights, failed to visit her in the hospital, suggested, that she quit her career. Divorced. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 24, onetime Olympic backstroke swimmer; by Arthur L. Jarrett. 30, jazz-band leader and crooner; in Los Angeles. Charges: he had been caused "great mental anguish and embarrassment" by her public announcement...
...Clifford S. Goodman, 17, of Wilmette; New Trier Township High School...
...weeks ago a cable was sent Harvardmen Joseph Siegel, Milton Wiener, Clifford Washburn, and Homer Chase who are fighting in the war-torn area. Received yesterday from the volunteers: "Wish you great success in attempt to emulate last year's humanitarian venture...