Word: earls
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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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...