Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petersburg, Fla., slight, dapper James Earl Webb, 49, operates what he calls "the world's most unusual drugstore." Unlike most independent druggists, he never felt that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first...
...board chairman went wiry, 69-year-old Earl W. Bennett, treasurer and Willard Dow's right-hand man on finances. He had guided the company's spectacular expansion during depression years...
...York's Frank Costello, who doesn't want anyone to think that he is as influential as everybody says he is. When California's Commission on Organized Crime recently identified him as the probable head of a nationwide slot-machine syndicate, the Tammany judgemaker wrote to Earl Warreri: "Governor, the truth is that I have so little influence . . . that I can't square a traffic ticket for myself...
...letter from a Daily Worker correspondent, said Budenz, he was told that "Manuilsky was indignant at the American party for not criticizing American officials more severely." The result was French Red Jacques Duclos' now famous Paris article castigating Earl Browder, then chief of the U.S. Communist party. Browder, who still stands ready to testify for the defense, was the fall guy of the Communist policy shift dictated by Moscow...
Opponents feared that some less benign censorship might replace the traditional office, now held by the 71-year-old Earl of Clarendon. But the House gave the bill a second-reading vote of 76 to 37 to push it along toward passage...