Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Stassen got in first. His welcoming party cheered at the wrong railway car, found itself greeting Alf Landon instead. After that, the pumping of brass bands, the milling of the curious, the sound of police sirens and applause were repeated over & over as Tom Dewey, Bob Taft and Earl Warren made their entrances...
Eight thousand feet below, Pilot Earl Bach, plugging along toward Philadelphia in a DC-3, heard the radio exchange. At 12:33 Pilot Bach's ears were stung by another message from Pilot Warner. It was terse: "New York, New York, this is an emergency descent." Said Bach: "I could tell from the pilot's voice that they were in bad trouble...
...Among the victims: Hollywood's 55 -year-old girl-show producer, Earl Carroll (see MILESTONES); fortyish, brunette Beryl Wallace, star of many of his revues; onetime Follies Girl Venita Varden, divorced wife of Jack Oakie...
Pausing in New York on his way to the Governors' Conference at New Castle, N.H., California's big, ruddy Governor Earl Warren gave the Eastern seaboard a quick look at himself...
...presidents were stunned. When they and Norton had threatened to quit last month if Avery's power was not clipped, Avery had suspected that it was a bluff to scare him off his high horse. Now he learned better. Vice Presidents Oswald Higgins, Laurence Odell, Charles Odorizzi and Earl Ward promptly resigned. By week's end, Avery was reportedly talking fast to persuade the other three vice presidents to stay...