Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical of ponderous British politics that not until last week did Neville Chamberlain name a successor to First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper, who resigned just after Munich because he could not swallow it. High-spirited young Duff Cooper was succeeded by the completely unexciting Earl Stanhope, who had been droning along as president of the Board of Education...
Lord Stanhope was succeeded as Minister of Education by the Earl de la Warr, a National Laborite protégé of the late James Ramsay MacDonald. It was Lord de la Warr who kept in touch with Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff during the Crisis, reported to London that Moscow made no "precise promises...
...Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party of America will also address the rally, which is being held to give support to the Party's candidates in the coming elections...
...Deacons assumed the lead in the first quarter when Earl Foster went over center on a mousetrap play and kept right on going until he hit the end zone. Jack McClure tacked on another point with a placement...
...Meekly the President put his "head on the block," promised it wouldn't happen again. Last week the Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick again broke into the White House manger, carried off another exclusive interview running to three and a half Sunday Magazine pages. Growled Earl Godwin, president of the White House Correspondents' Association: "I wonder how many necks the President...