Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Janet Helen Attlee Shipton, 25, daughter of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and Harold William Shipton, 27, electronics engineer: their first child, a daughter; in Bristol, England. Name: Ann Helen. Weight...
...even the basement office did not keep Acme from being scooped on a prize picture of the G.O.P. Convention. When Tom Dewey slipped away to the garden party given by the Pennsylvania Railroad's M. W. Clement for the leading Republican candidates, the Acme photographer covering Dewey was busy changing his shirt...
...Lighted Sparkler. The Pennsylvania Railroad's grey-haired President Martin W. Clement, an arch-Republican, asked Democratic bigwigs to a garden party at the fashionable Merion Cricket Club. But the party seemed oddly like a waxworks exhibition. There, bowing and smiling and real as life, were scores of famous men who had already been politically embalmed...
...Deakin sat tight, hoping the strike would peter out. So, for days, did Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labor government. But British tempers frayed. Cried a Tory M.P.: "It's the most effective way the Communists have yet found of sabotaging simultaneously the Labor government and Marshall aid." Said a truck driver (and Transport Union member): "When I get down to the docks in the morning and see these silly buggers striking at the gates...
There was one lull before the big political storm. The major candidates went to suburban Rosemont for a "purely social meeting" at the home of Martin W. Clement, bony, white-haired president of the Pennsylvania Railroad...