Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indianapolis, in your issue of Sept. 14, about South Carolina, is so strangely well-informed, so keen in accurate discernment, that I cannot forbear to write you saying so. Only one who knew his subject would have quoted from John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions, written at the Earl of Shaftesbury's request, for the Lords Proprietors of the Colony, the warning against a ''numerous democracy." It may be that a too numerous democracy is a present-day affliction also beyond South Carolina's borders...
...news to any political observer is the fact that U. S. Communists, though equipped with a Presidential candidate of their own, are this year hoping & praying for the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt. Their declaration for him has been delivered obliquely in the form of statements by Nominee Earl Browder and other Red leaders that the No. 1 Communist objective in the current campaign is to "defeat the Landon-Hearst-Liberty League reaction" (TIME, July 6). That objective stemmed from a shift in Communist world strategy decided at Moscow last year. Reds in every land were to cease their partisan...
...shocked his Chicago Tribune readers with this scarehead: MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U. S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT. Featured in the GOPress was the resignation of James Casey as managing editor of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker because of his disgust with "candidates who speak in the open for Earl Browder and then confer at closed chamber sessions for the election of Roosevelt...
...Cummings, accustomed to high speeds on oval tracks with banked turns, will have their first chance to compete with the best European road drivers, of whom many are socialites like Italy's Count Antonio Brivio, England's Hon. Brian Lewis and Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe. Only U. S. amateur driver entered is Joel Thorne, onetime outboard motorboat champion and grandson of the late Banker Samuel Thorne, who has seven cars in the race, plans to drive one himself. First prize in the Columbus Day race, in addition to the new Vanderbilt Cup, will...
...ideas as in its people. Reddish remarks pass current, but they develop the characters, not the characters them. Bishop Holden, champion of the old order, although a little sententious, is not made to look ridiculous; Martin Paterson, champion of the new, is as non-chalant as that genial Communist, Earl Browder, and gladly abandons his lectures...