Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise of the convention was the man who said no and meant it. California's big, blond, husky Earl Warren could have had the Vice Presidential nomination. Republicans were sure that he-like Tom Dewey-only needed urging. His last-minute refusal put John Bricker on the ticket in his stead, and raised two questions: why had he declined, and why had he waited so long...
...willing to be had. His would have been a stronger name on the ticket than John Brickers. But when Bricker showed genuine Presidential strength on the Convention floor (in the delegates' hearts, if not in their ballots), it became good Dewey strategy to give Bricker the second place. Earl Warren, ready but reluctant to serve, stepped aside. In the months and years to come, he might prove to have lost nothing by his decision...
...York Post's Earl Wilson: "Us columnists find we are small potatoes here, and that goes for even the great Louella Parsons of Hollywood. People here actually say, 'Who IS Louella Parsons...
Backing up the newcomers is a nucleus from last term's squad, including Captain Mark Tuttle. crack miler from the NROTC, V-12cr Earl Swett, who runs the two-mile distance, civilians Glenn Schultz and Frank Cawley, both of whom do the 440, V-12cr Jack Noble, a half-miler, and versatile Cliff Wharton, who handles the broad jump, high jump...
Another most important new face was that of Keynoter Earl Warren, Governor of California, a big, reassuring man, who told the convention: "We are here to do a job for the American people. To get the boys victoriously back home; to open the door to jobs and opportunity; to make a peace that this time will be lasting. That is what the American people expect the Republican Party to accomplish. That is why, in so many streams of late, they have been changing so many horses. . . . We do not propose to deny the progress that has been made during...