Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the fury of Earl Browder's cohorts claiming "martyrdom," and the sounds of rejoicing at his conviction, the American public has little chance of deciding sanely whether reaction or justice prevailed. The Goddess of emotion, not law, holds the scales. Too many liberal minds can be swayed by nightmares of a coming purge. Too many conservatives can ease their conscience in the pure and American conduct of the trial. But the error is not in the conviction but in the charge. The real question is whether passport violation should have been pressed in the first place...
...Charles Earl Sando, 45, U. S. Department of Agriculture biochemist, gets rather excitable when he has two cocktails in succession. One evening last week he had three. But it was quite an occasion. Philadelphia's Franklin Institute had opened the first big public showing of Dr. Sando's neat method of preserving biological specimens (and almost anything else, for that matter) in blocks of transparent, synthetic resin...
Shreveport, La. radio officials several times silenced parts of a campaign speech by Governor Earl Kemp Long, Huey's brother, because of his hells, damns, other profanities. Finally, political prudence getting the better of discretion, they gave...
Father-to-Son. Thus the Cabinet and the generals were well pleased when Neville Chamberlain picked as his new War Secretary last week a man of character and a great gentleman, Mr. Oliver Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby, who was Secretary of State for War in 1916-18 and again in 1922-24. If the time is coming to send Tommy Atkins to glory, death and victory, quiet Mr. Stanley, who won the Croix de Guerre in hot fighting on the Western Front, will not hold the Army back. Neither will he go-get. That is practically guaranteed...
...Conservative Party persuaded young Edward Wood to run for Parliament from Ripon, near York. So at 28 he became an M. P. By then he was already well married to Lady Dorothy Onslow, daughter of the Earl of Onslow, one time Governor General of New Zealand...