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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slim, dark-haired, 17-year-old June Morris, who works in a factory canteen. "It doesn't matter to me who he is," she said in a declaration half out of Grimm, half out of Noel Coward. "I can't help his being the son of an earl. I fell in love with Gerald before I knew who he was when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 7, 1942 | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...Deal Democrat, he had to contend with a Republican State Senate, an almost evenly divided State Assembly, a hostile press (at one time he flatly refused to see any Hearst reporters) and a Republican attorney general. Last week it seemed as if his attorney general-serious, hard-working Earl Warren-might resolve all Culbert Olson's difficulties by throwing him out of office this November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Surprise in California | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

Running in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, Earl Warren easily won the Republican nomination with 633,000 votes. In the Democratic primary the score was Olson 496,000; Warren 395,000. Thus (as far as the primary was concerned) Warren got more than twice as many votes as Olson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Surprise in California | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

Rugged, ambitious Earl Warren made his reputation as the crusading district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley and the East Bay waterfront). There, in 13 years, he waged campaigns against bail-bond brokers, liquor-law violators, cleaning & dyeing racketeers, grafting politicians and labor "goon squads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Surprise in California | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...California's attorney general, Earl Warren continued his dogged crusading: broke up illegal dog racing, harried bookmakers, made a spectacular raid on four gambling ships anchored off the coast near Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Surprise in California | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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