Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Canadians reacted the way they always do when union with the U.S. is proposed. At Kenora, Ont., George Barrett, Attorney General of Illinois, told an audience of Rotarians that Canadians should break their "sentimental" ties with Great Britain and seek statehood south of the border. Indignant citizens were baying at his heels before he could say "George Washington...
Tragic Destiny was not likely to upset any literary reputations. The story of the demimondaine who sparked the Paraguayan Napoleon to dreams of empire and simultaneous war with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil had been better and more fully told in English (William E. Barrett: Woman on Horseback). But Hildas thin volume was good reading and it might sell to Mexican movies. If it did, Hilda the actress would undoubtedly want to go with...
...tipster called the editors, whispered "There's some Greenwood men going to be charged with the murder of a nigger," and hung up. Four days later, after checking the lead through three Delta counties, Managing Editor Charles Pou ran it down, got it confirmed by Prosecuting Attorney Pat Barrett...
...keep the story sewed up, Pou drove to Lexington, Miss., manned Prosecutor Barrett's telephone during his absence. When frantic newsmen telephoned for details from the West Coast, New York and other parts of the U.S., he purred that the prosecutor would be "back tomorrow" and would be glad to talk with them then. At week's end, the Morning Star was still holding a dollar for its tipster. He had not left his name...
...Barrett and his men got up typical admen's charts which graphically analyzed the bitter truth. In the last 14 years of Los Angeles County's tremendous (47%) growth, the Republicans had managed to win only 4% of the new voters. In the last two years the gain was a microscopic one-fifth of 1%. The county GOP had only four permanent employes-"not as many as it takes to run a good neighborhood grocery." Even the Communist Party had more permanent office space...