Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight New York Justice John E. McGeehan upheld Mrs. Kay, revoked the appointment. Said Earl Russell: "It strikes me between the eyes. . . . Precisely the same accusations were brought against Socrates -- atheism and corrupting the young." Socrates was forced to drink hemlock. Russell is booked to lecture at Harvard. --Life Magazine...
...Earl Carroll received an invitation to act as a supporter of Presidential Candidate Robert A. Taft. Reason: in the campaign of 1912 Carroll was one of the composers of a song, Jump On the Raft With Taft. At that time Carroll went to Washington with a quartet, rose in the House gallery, started to sing his song, was thrown...
When Huey Long was assassinated in 1935, Governor Richard Webster Leche (now under a Federal indictment for fraud) took over the paper. When Leche resigned last summer, Governor Earl Kemp Long, Huey's brother, bought American Progress for $188,000. Last week Earl Long too was out of office, twice beaten at the polls (TIME, March 4), his political machine a shambles...
...York's Justice McGeehan is of the same mind, for he has voided the appointment. Harvard is nevertheless holding fast, and will welcome Russell as James Lecturer next year. It should do even more; C.C.N.Y.'s loss can be the University's gain, if Harvard grabs the scholarly Earl for a whole year instead of merely a half...
...Russell is a "good catch" for Harvard. If the William James fund is not large enough to pay the salary which Russell is worth, some other pieces of eight can probably be found to keep him here a full year. The University should pry into all its pockets, for Earl Russell is a worthy companion for lecturers Frost and Strawinsky...