Word: streits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backed him in Kefauver's spectacularly successful Senate race against the Memphis machine of Boss Ed Crump. The plan was not originally Orgill's either. It had had its origin in the mind of an ex-newspaperman, a gentle, dogged and dedicated crusader named Clarence Kirsh-man Streit (rhymes with fight...
Legion of the Single-Minded. In spite of the most persistent promotion of Clarence Streit's idea, probably a majority of U.S. citizens had never heard of it, and many who had read of it in the inside pages had long since forgotten its details. And although he had concentrated his campaign for backing on men of influence, including legislators and editors, few legislators and only a few newspapers backed it. Only a handful of well-known names appeared among the sponsors of Atlantic Union, and Clarence Streit's was a voice in the wilderness of the cities...
...Arguer. As a boy in California, Mo. (1950 pop. 3,500), Clarence Streit had no trouble imagining that the mud pond back of the Streits' four-room frame house was the Atlantic Ocean. As an adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit...
Sincerity & Good Will. Clayton was speaking for the Atlantic Union Committee, headed by former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts. Atlantic Union was a lineal descendant of Union Now, founded and expounded by Clarence Streit, longtime crusader for a union of free peoples. Its blueprint envisioned a political, military and economic federation of the original seven North Atlantic Treaty nations (U.S., Canada, Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg...