Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lifetime friend of Henry Agard Wallace, Anderson has snapped at New Deal farm policies. But the Anderson bite is most painfully remembered by Iowa GOPsters. At a 1940 dinner attended by Cedar Rapids' Harrison Earl Spangler, now national Republican chairman (TIME, Feb. 14), Anderson got nettled by ques-tions as to how farmers would vote, exploded in his deep bass that they would never go with the G.O.P. so long as it was run by Spangler-type men. His Iowa friends have lately noticed in Anderson's "Out on the Acres" column a leaning toward conservatism, see election...
Death Revealed. John Thomas Looney, 74, British Shakespearian scholar; early this month; in Swadlincote, England. The Looney theory that Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, has been backed by a U.S. research group...
Willkie had perhaps split the Utah delegation; friendly Washington is still uncertain. In Portland, he announced his entrance into the Oregon primary. The most significant result might follow his luncheon with California's Governor Earl Warren, the most potent Western GOPolitico. If Wendell Willkie could snare Earl Warren's support, the whole West might fall into his hands...
General Manager. At college (University of Iowa), Earl was neither star quarterback nor honor student but, characteristically, general manager of athletics. In 1905 he took his law degree, began encouraging friends to call him "Harrison." Most Iowans continued to call him "Spang...
Henry Wallace was late for dinner. His motorcycle escort took him by mistake to the Rightists' Beverly-Wilshire Hotel, then rushed him at prerationing speed over to the Leftists' Beverly Hills. He was introduced with confident graciousness by California's Republican Governor Earl Warren ("We like his frankness . . ."). Wallace assured the moviemakers that they would get more business by "understanding the unexpressed hunger in the souls of moviegoers." But Academy President Walter Wanger (producer husband of Joan Bennett), with only a bit part on the program, got the biggest hand. He put aside his scheduled talk...