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...Died. Clifton Alexander Woodrum, 63, longtime (1923-45) U.S. Representative from Virginia; of a heart ailment; in Washington. Though he went along with most of the New Deal, Woodrum was a leader of the Democratic Party's conservative wing, spoke up sternly now & then against freehanded Administration spending. In 1939 Washington newsmen voted him one of the ten ablest Representatives...
...staff of Lieut. General Simon Buckner's Tenth Army at Pearl Harbor, to help plan D-day on Okinawa, a combined Army-Marine operation (1,213 ships, 183,000 men). In July 1945 he was assigned once more to Quantico. Appointed as Quantico commandant in 1946 was General Clifton B. Gates, a regimental commander' on Guadalcanal who is now commandant of the Corps. Gates and Smith sifted out all that had been learned of the art of amphibious warfare and distilled it into a series of textbooks, leaning heavily on Smith's enormous mass of notes...
Back of His Hand. When the Communists invaded South Korea, Smith was in Washington as Clifton Cates's assistant commandant. In July Smith was sent to California, as a two-star general, to command the 1st Division. While Eddie Craig with his advance combat team kicked off the Marine fighting in Korea, Smith fleshed out the depleted division with reserves and regulars summoned from all over the country. Last week, in the kind of ship-to-shore assault he knows like the back of his hand, Oliver Prince Smith was in the Korean war at last...
...Mind . . ." Late that afternoon, the Corps's commandant, General Clifton B. Cates, arrived at the White House to receive Harry Truman's apology. The apology, in the form of a letter to Cates, was sent on to be read at the league convention...
...judges well knew, they were indeed running counter to .popular passion. The third judge on the appeals court, Clifton Mathews, dissented tartly: "The danger here suggested is not a fanciful one. The ability of Bridges and his I.L.W.U. to paralyze Pacific Coast shipping has been demonstrated more than once." In the Senate, North Dakota's loudmouth William Langer demanded a congressional investigation of federal judges to see if any are Communists or fellow travelers. The decision was also too much for plodding, verbose F. Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue, the special Department of Justice prosecutor who got Bridges convicted. "God help...