Word: earl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of 'Halifax, retiring British Ambassador, faltered momentarily as he talked with Omaha newspaper reporters about the proposed $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan to Britain, but recovered with diplomathematical aplomb: "I've always been bad on sums. . . . Let's see, what did I say, millions or billions...
I.S.C.G.T.R.C. got started in 1943 when Earl May, a wealthy Iowa nurseryman, put up $75,000 for a five-year investigation of primitive corn. The following year a group of Guatemalan businessmen offered $150,000 to U.S. agricultural colleges for research work in Guatemala. Iowa State snapped up both offers...
Coined in a grim party diatribe telling why Fallen Angel Earl Browder was expelled (TIME, Feb. 18), the term would henceforth describe "rotten liberal attitudes" among strays in the class struggle. Noting the enrichment of the language, the editors of the New York Times commented...
...Earl Browder made no reply. But at week's end came news that he had applied to the State Department for a passport to Russia. No one knew for sure whether his purpose was to ask the Soviet Union for reinstatement as a Communist or to exploit it as a capitalist...
Ever since the wartime pinch, when Communist Earl Browder first put forth the heresy that capitalism and social gain might be compatible, his U.S. comrades have been sniping at him. In July 1945, on orders from abroad, they demoted him from boss. Last week, pondering his recent conversion into a little businessman (TIME, Jan. 28), they recommended his expulsion from the party. The charges: "[Browder] is an active opponent of the party representing an enemy-class ideology. . . . [He] supports the entire policy of the Truman Administration, including its imperialist course in foreign affairs...