Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spangler? Harrison Earl Spangler is an old-fashioned politician who happens to be Chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was described by the Willkie-minded New York Herald Tribune, after careful analysis, as "possibly not the most disastrous" front man the Party has ever had. With malicious whoops, critics have called him: 1) "the soft underbelly of the Republican Party;" 2) a spokesman who tries to put both feet into his mouth simultaneously; 3) a fictional character invented by the New Deal's foxy old pressagent, Charlie Michelson...
...born 64 years ago in a white frame farmhouse that punctuated an otherwise unbroken stretch of prairie in Guthrie County, Iowa. His forebears were Dutch-Scottish. The lad known as Earl Spangler was a thickish, indestructible, average boy who soaked up his book learning without much night work...
Stitch In Time. In the springtime, young Earl used to cut willow branches with his pocket knife and whittle whistles. One afternoon he fell off a lurching wagon and almost bit off his tongue. Several quick stitches by the family doctor saved the unruly member for future high-school debating. Iowa speechmaking, and eventual policy-pronouncing from Republican National Headquarters. When he was still a boy, Earl settled on law as his career. He hung around the county courthouse after school, listening with interest to the routine trials of routine lawbreakers. Through his father, Zwingle Spangler, who carried weight...
...Earl was teaching school when the Spanish-American War came. He enlisted with Company F, 51st Iowa Volunteers. Typhoid fever laid him low in The Presidio's hospital, San Francisco, and he missed the boat when his outfit sailed for Manila. By the time his temperature had dropped, the war was over...
Memories, Memories. In New Comerstown, Ohio, Earl Sayre sat down next to a woman in a movie, soon was arrested for beating her up, said he had mistaken her for his exwife...