Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California's Earl Warren had sat up all night in a plane," and TIME implies he was dissatisfied by having nothing to do. Governor Warren was urged to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee, but did not feel that he should...
...Portland's Mayor Robert Earl Riley...
...early morning a German plane bombed the regiment, dispersed for two hours' sleep in the fields. Three wounded men were sent to the rear; the regiment marched on. By 6 a.m. Lieut. Colonel Earl Taylor's 3rd Battalion was near the bridge on the Sele...
Died. Valentine Edward Charles ("Val") Browne, 52, the Earl of Kenmare, Viscount Castlerosse, Britain's balloon-shaped Walter Winchell; of heart disease; in Killarney, Eire. Heir to vast Irish estates, he was having a hard time making his luxurious ends meet when Lord Beaverbrook took him up after War I, made him his star gossip in the Sunday Express. A 300-lb., bullet-headed dandy, Val spread out from bar-&-boudoir intelligence to light commentary on international affairs...
...rigid schedules, trainees will average only 20 hours of preseason practice (prewar average: 50 hours); age levels have dropped sharply (Princeton, which had averaged a 21-year-old squad, now averages 17 to 18); sudden shifts and mysterious whiskings-away of Naval trainees (said Dartmouth's Coach Earl Brown: "We are supposed to have inherited a wealth of brawn and brain . . . but I can tell you a lot of those aces supposedly here are not on the scene...