Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey and Earl Warren have other similarities. Dewey was a flashy racket-buster who fastened on cases with national interest and made the most of the attendant publicity. Earl Warren's work as district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley) was less spectacular. But in a state where most gang-busting is done on movie lots, he sent droves of bootleggers, con men, grafters and corrupt city officials packing off to jail...
...episode of Earl Warren's past remembered most unfavorably on the West Coast is his handling of the celebrated Point Lobos case. In 1936, at the height of West Coast labor strife, the chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos was stabbed and beaten to death in his cabin, while the ship lay at an Alameda dock...
...chief engineer had been known to unioneers as a fink. Some five months later, District Attorney Earl Warren got three union officials indicted and convicted on a charge of conspiracy to murder the engineer. The trial had some curious aspects: the judge was an old friend of Warren's; the deputy district attorney who tried the case became heavily indebted to one of the jurors. Labor and many liberals cried "frame-up"; labor unions surrounded the courthouse daily with 1,000 pickets. The three unioneers were subsequently pardoned by Governor Culbert Olson. Labor has never completely forgiven Earl Warren...
...from Waking Up. The house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street where Earl Warren was born in 1891 is now occupied by a Chinese family. Earl Warren's father was a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific, who lost his job in 1894 when he went out on strike. The family moved 110 miles north to Bakersfield, then still something of a frontier town. Governor Warren recalls the day as a child when he was riding his donkey down the main street and ran spang into the running gun battle in which Deputy Sheriff Wil liam E. Tibbett...
Warren says that what finally determined him to try for the governorship was his utter inability to get along with Democratic Governor Culbert Olson. Many other Californians could not stomach New Dealing Governor Olson either, and Earl Warren shrewdly capitalized on this feeling. Running as a "nonpartisan" (he came surprisingly close to getting the Democratic nomination as well as the Republican), he stumped the length (1,000 miles) and breadth (200 miles) of the state, probably shook the hands of more Californians than has any other man alive...