Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EARL LONG STORY WAS HIGHLY APPRECIATED HERE BY ALL NOT WITHIN SPITTING RANGE OF EARL. HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT STATEMENT THAT EARL SPENT ELECTION DAY AFTERNOON SPITTING UPON THE "ITEM." HE SPENT IT SPITTING ON THE NEW ORLEANS "STATES" AND WITH GOOD REASON. THE "STATES" HAS CONSISTENTLY LED ALL OTHER LOUISIANA DAILIES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST WHAT EARL LONG STANDS FOR, HAS LANDED THE MOST TELLING BLOWS, AND HAS GOADED EARL INTO HIS MOST VITUPERATIVE REACTIONS AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE SPITTING EPISODE...
...Harry Truman set off on the first leg of his campaign itinerary, Candidate Tom Dewey kept his own plans strictly to himself. The only word from Republican headquarters was the announcement that Running Mate Earl Warren would take off next week for a ten-day tour through twelve Western and border states...
When he was helping Uncle Earl get elected governor of Louisiana last winter, 29-year-old Russell Long was not above pausing to speak enthusiastically about himself. He reminded Louisiana voters that he was Huey Long's oldest son, and strongly intimated that he was the true heir to the departed Kingfish's domain. This summer, when he set out to run for the U.S. Senate, he made the inference even plainer by continually speaking of "Me and Earl...
...last week, when the Democratic primary returns were counted, it was obvious that the voters lumped all the Longs together, and that many were disgruntled at Old Earl's tax boosts (TIME, Aug. 30). Russell won by less than 10,000 votes. It was, nevertheless, a handsome victory. It made Russell the youngest U.S. Senator (he would be 30 the day after the final election in November) to be elected since West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt in 1935.* And it strongly bulwarked the Long tribe's power in Louisiana...
...said, was the Communist underground boss who introduced him to Hiss. Confronted by Chambers and asked if he knew him, Peters refused to answer on the grounds that he might incriminate himself. He gave that same answer to some 30 other questions. But he did admit that he knew Earl Browder...