Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parlay. In Oakland, Calif., Reporter "Spike" Kelly picked up a dollar blown into his office by a gale, bet it on a horse, got back $18.50, told the story to Reporter Earl de Soto, who wrote it for a magazine, was paid $2, bet it on a horse, got back...
...Governor. Earl Warren brought as much life to California's government as his family did to the mansion. Californians, looking at his first-year record, had to go back to the turbulent first year of Hiram Johnson's administration (1911-17) to find a yardstick by which to measure their new governor. Warren has yet to equal Johnson but he has chalked up some solid accomplishments...
...prison reform; 2) soldiers' vote bill; 3) authorization of a constitutional amendment permitting the state to tax federal lands. (The Governor will dodge the touchy issue of California's relocated Japanese citizens.) Legislative leaders expect the session to last just three days. Reason for the speed is Earl Warren's established practice of thoroughly thrashing out bills in citizens' committees and informal groups of legislators before they are even submitted to the legislature...
Warren & the West. Earl Warren enjoys being governor of California. But to him one of the best parts of the job is the chance it gives him to take the lead in safeguarding and building the future of the West. California used to snoot its smaller Western neighbors. But Governor Warren called the first conference of the governors of the eleven Western states at Salt Lake City last May. A third meeting will be held soon...
...most distinguished rebels of his generation finally had a job last week that suited him. It was high time. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 71, by primogeniture third Earl Russell and Viscount Amberley, in his own right a world-famed mathematician and philosopher, accepted a Cambridge fellowship. It was offered him by his famed alma mater, Trinity College, which in 1916 dismissed him for a pacifism he no longer holds...