Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl Browder, acting for the self-proclaimed nonpolitical Communist Political Association, contributed a $5,000 check to the nonpolitical Freedom House campaign fund for the Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Building (TIME, Feb. 26), explained that it was "a public recognition of a debt" for Willkie's "defense ... of the right of American Communists to full citizenship. . . ." Freedom House's directors promptly returned the Browder check because of its "political implication," explained: "We advocate full collaboration with the Soviet Union ... in the prosecution of the war . . . [but] Wendell Willkie was outspoken in his criticism of American Communists...
...Earl of Halifax, who once said that he would rather be Master of Fox Hounds than Prime Minister, prepared to set out on a tour of the U.S. Southwest, looked forward to a ride to hounds in the best Oklahoma tradition-a wolf hunt...
...Reporter Earl Banner zipped into Montreal, shot a quick glance around, then sat down and whipped off a dispatch for the Boston Daily Globe and the New York Times. Gist: Canadians are living the life of Riley; there are no shortages of meat, butter, cigarets, liquor, fuel, women's & children's clothing. In fact, said Reporter Banner, "rationing has inflicted just one inconvenience" on Canadians-they have to tear out stamps...
Last week Captain Earl J. Wilson, U.S.M.C. Aviation Correspondent, reported that this particular Jap effort at propaganda-with-music had been a spectacular flop. For one thing, Filipinos have grown used to the buoyant lyrics and 4/4 rhythms of Tin Pan Alley...
...Earl Conrad is free, white and 36, a Hearstwhile reporter who became a Negro expert for Manhattan's race-conscious PM. Last week he quit PM to head the New York bureau and write a column for the New Dealing Negro Chicago Defender ("World's Greatest Weekly"), which already has a Japanese-American on its staff. Said Conrad: "No white paper is prepared to speak out on the Negro question. . . . There has been a conspiracy of silence. This is changing rapidly now, but I am apparently ahead of the trend...