Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa's Parliament Hill, a sleek maroon phaeton rolled up the curving drive. Several thousand sweltering spectators patted their hands in gentle applause. The car stopped at the great center doorway of the Parliament Building and out stepped Alexander Frederick Augustus William Alfred George Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, and his wife, the Princess Alice. Athlone. for five years the representative in Canada of his nephew George VI, was on his way to perform for the last time the most impressive of a Canadian Governor General's functions-the formal opening of a session of Parliament...
...stone steps, the tall, booted, hawk-nosed Earl watched a company of soldiers, sailors and airmen click to "present arms," heard a military band play the final strain of God Save the King. From the distance came the deep booms of a 19-gun salute. The Earl, plainly enjoying this time-honored parliamentary pageantry, smiled, then turned and warmly shook the hand of Canada's chunky, frock-coated Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. A braid-heavy honor guard escorted the Earl and the Princess inside...
Henry Kaiser, who knows all about publicity, promptly threatened to appeal his case to Congress, and got California's obliging Governor Earl Warren to order an investigation of RFC's shackling of western industry. Said Kaiser: "War costs should be written off as a part of the total economic waste of war and should not be charged against industry." On this point most industrialists agreed that he appeared to be on solid ground...
...Major William Fife Knowland, A.U.S.,will be America's youngest Senator. Burly Earl Warren explained that Major Knowland, now with an Army historical section in Paris, precisely fitted the spiel he had made about the kind of man California's new Senator should...
Most Californians smiled. Ever since the Major's father, Publisher Joseph Russell Knowland (Oakland Tribune), began backing Earl Warren more than a decade ago, it had been understood that if Earl became Governor, Joe's boy (who was assistant publisher) would get the next Senate vacancy...