Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good, grey Dr. Francis Everett Townsend but shrewd, dynamic Co-Founder and National Secretary Robert Earl Clements is the man who has marshaled the Townsend hordes into a potent and profitable political army. In Washington last week, day after he was summoned to appear before the House investigating committee set up to destroy the Townsend threat (TIME, March 2), this 41-year-old onetime Long Beach, Calif, real estate broker announced his resignation from Old Age Revolving Pensions. His stated reason: "Differences with Dr. Townsend over fundamental policies...
...came with the downfall of Cornwallis, the editor of the Philadelphia Freemen's Journal or the North American Intelligencer printed the news in type four times normal size. "BE IT REMEMBERED!" thundered the Freemen's Journal, "that on the 17th day of October, 1781 Lieut. Gen. Charles Earl Cornwallis, with above 5,000 British troops, surrendered themselves prisoners of war to His Excellency, Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces of France and America. LAUS...
ANTONY-The Earl of Lytton-Scribner...
Antony Knebworth's lines were cast in pleasant places. He was born the eldest son of the Earl of Lytton, in a pre-War England that might well have seemed his family's garden. His godfather, Edward VII, confirmed the prestige of his birth; his fairy godmothers gave him health, wealth, happiness. Sargent made a drawing of him as a six-year-old. He soon delighted his parents by giving precocious signs of being a sportsman. At the age of 8 he took a 7½-hr. ski trip in Switzerland with his father, successfully negotiating...
American Sugar, despite the highest sugar prices in years, made $3,571,000 in 1935, a considerable slide from the $4,877,000 profit in 1934. Chairman Earl D. Babst loudly blamed the company's loss of business on Government quotas, declared that import allowances for refined sugar from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had made refineries hum on those islands while "domestic refineries are working at half capacity...