Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most experienced Protestant collaborators with a Communist regime, Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka of Prague, called upon the World Council "to combat the petrified notions, prejudices, self-isolation and inner estrangement that prevail in both East and West." De-estrangement is already well under way: United Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry of New York announced that the Russian Orthodox Moscow Patriarchate was ready to arrange a conference some time next winter with representatives of the World Council...
...first and only lady banker in Richland, Kans. (pop. 200), Democrat Georgia Neese Clark Gray, whose signature graced the nation's folding money when she was Treasurer of the U.S. (1949-1953) organized a weekly whistling contest, limited to kids under 16. Reasons: obscure. Prizes: two shiny silver dollars. "I just love to hear the sound of whistling," burbled Mrs. Gray. "Why be gloomy when you can be cheerful...
...little office on North Clark Street in Chicago, two men met to talk business. The deal: how to muscle into the thriving Chicago Restaurant Association and take control of it. Said James Weinberg to Paul ("Needle Nose") Labriola: "We'll have to kill Teitelbaum, but we don't want a big uproar in the papers. We'll push him out of his office window. He's in income-tax trouble, and everybody will think it was suicide...
...authorities in the Philippines and in Washington. The Philippines Act of Independence of 1934 gave the U.S. the right to maintain bases there after the islands became independent. In 1947, a year after actual independence was granted, 23 such areas were defined, only three of them major: Clark Air Field, 50 miles north of Manila; the Navy's Subic Bay installations on the northwest shoulder of Bataan peninsula; and the Navy's Sangley Point Air Base at Cavite, on Manila...
Name to Remember. The odds against the workers were overwhelming, and by morning the fight was all but over. The government announced that 48 had been killed and 270 wounded in the revolt−but TIME Correspondent Ed Clark reported 50 bodies in just one of Poznan's ten hospitals...