Word: earl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shambles. At 5 a.m., Dewey let it be known that he was "still confident." His mother gave up and went to bed. In San Francisco, Earl Warren told reporters wanly: "Even if the 81st Congress is called on to decide the election, the Republicans still...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's husky Theodore C. Link, 43, knew plenty of crooks-and how to use them. For 22 years, off & on, he had tapped many of them for crime tips, notably the Midwest's ill-famed Shelton brothers. On their part, brothers Carl, Bernie and Earl Shelton, who had terrorized southern Illinois before "retiring" as gentlemen farmers on bootleg and slot-machine fortunes, had a soft spot for the Post-Dispatch. It had once found out about a frame-up plot against them in 1926, and they never forgot it. That was fine with the Post...
Come Up & See Me. Four nights after the killing, Reporter Link interviewed Peter Petrakos, an intimate of Bernie Shelton, in a Peoria hotel room. Also present were "Big Earl" Shelton and two of his henchmen. Earl was anxious to know who had killed Bernie and Carl (who had been murdered a year ago), and whether his number was up too. Link and the Post-Dispatch had a bigger interest in the case: they wanted to find out if Illinois gamblers had killed Bernie and if they had connections with Governor Green's machine...
...Democrats making hay with the case-Hull denounced the recordings as a fake, and demanded another grand jury. Governor Green's attorney general sent a special prosecutor to Peoria to handle it. Last week the second grand jury brought in its report. It indicted Reporter Link, Big Earl Shelton and the other two witnesses to the Petrakos interview on charges of kidnaping, conspiracy and intimidation. They had seized Petrakos, the jury charged, "for the purpose of getting a confession." The grand jury also accused the Post-Dispatch of bad faith...
...control of the Senate, it will be no easy trick. If the net Democratic gain is three seats--tying the parties at 48 each--the vice-president's vote will decide which party takes charge of committees and gobbles up the rest of the majority plums. Assuming that Earl Warren will be that vice-president, the Democrats must net four new seats. The battle for the Senate may well have a higher Hooper rating next Tuesday than the Presidential race, and it will probably be much pleasanter listening for the Democrats...