Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they come to Mackinac? To exchange jokes and cigars in the lobby? They began to wonder. Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall had been on his way almost a week; California's Earl Warren had sat up all night in a plane. Watching the Governors fiddle and fidget, Readers' Digest's Stanley High cracked: "Never have so many come so far to do so little...
Portland, Ore.'s breezy Mayor Robert Earl Riley smoothed his pin-striped suit, tossed away a cigar butt, kissed his wife and daughter goodby, lit a new cigar and was off for England. He lands this week, will tour the countryside for eight weeks under the auspices of the Office of War Information, make speeches, answer questions, give Britons a chance to know-and, OWI hopes, to love-a typical U.S. mayor...
Those elected after they were nominated by a committee of Navy men set up by the Student Council, include Lloyd M. Anderson, Joseph T. Fitzpatrick, Ashley H. Carter, James G. Summers, Charles D. Thompson, and Robert D. Harrison of Eliot House; and Daniel R. Shields, Earl T. Winters, and Peter M. Lewis of Kirkland House...
...Rabbits. In Leonia, N.J., John A. Earl, candidate for a state senatorship, guarded against hocus-pocus at the drawing for positions on the primary ballot by taking along a magician as a watcher...
There were differences, of course. The old familiar faces--Dick Harlow, Lyal Clark, Earl Brown, and almost all the lettermen--were gone, and the session was held on the House field, rather than the boarded-in enclosure of past years, but it was football practice...