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...suggested policies carried great weight, and it clearly-fell within his power to protest those policies he felt were improper." Such logic may be true, but if it is used to determine what historical figure merits honor, then few would pass. It would certainly disqualify Roosevelt and Churchill, and Earl Warren, who shaped the internment in California. The founding fathers, who could have banned slavery but instead helped strengthen it, would also fail...
...Jewish I do not take this lightly," Lyss said, asking. "Are you saying we can't name anything after FDR or anything after Earl Warren...
This spring the mood is said to be greatly improved in the Baltimore clubhouse: retired Manager Earl Weaver has given up rhubarbs for tomatoes. Owner Edward Bennett Williams calls the withdrawal process "de-Weaverization," a happier state under congenial Joe Altobelli, though the results are what will tell. "Finally," Pitcher Jim Palmer says, "we're going to find out if we won despite Earl or because of him." The Yankees' clubhouse is filled, once again, with strangers, Steve Kemp, Don Baylor, a few other expensive new hands, prompting Third Baseman Graig Nettles to remark: "Every year, staying here...
...site of a 1941 murder that obsessed the British essayist and critic for a decade. By the time Connolly died in 1974, he had come tantalizingly close to finding the answer to the question that had mesmerized two generations of colonial society: Who shot Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland...
...time, the Kenyan aristocrats closed ranks to protect one of their own, though most suspected Broughton of the crime. A friend gave him an alibi. Diana hired a brilliant defense lawyer from South Africa. After Broughton was acquitted of the murder, he received a cable from the Earl of Carnarvon and Montgomery (HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ON WINNING A NECK CLEVERLY), and was invited to recuperate from the trial at the palace of the Maharajah of Jhopur. Still, the smell persisted. Thirty years after the crime, Fox persuaded three people to talk about the murder confessions Broughton had made to them before...