Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your reviewer of Earl Schenck Miers' and Richard A. Brown's Gettysburg [TIME, May 31] does an injustice to the British observer with the Confederates, Colonel Arthur Fremantle, when applying the word "tactless" to Fremantle's remark to General Longstreet after the failure of Pickett's charge...
Emphatic Approval. Others quickly chimed in. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey issued a statement backing the full appropriation. So did California's Governor Earl Warren. Presidential candidate Harold Stassen rushed to Washington to plead with Congress not to "tarnish the national honor of our country." Secretary of State Acme Marshall declared that "the crux of the whole affair [is] confidence in the integrity of leadership of this country...
This week he stopped in Albany long enough to pick up his wife and two sons and then was off to New Castle, N.H. for the 40th annual Governors' Conference. There he chatted easily with California's Governor Earl Warren (see below), and with newsmen. They asked him whether he had read Harry Truman's western speeches. "From what I could gather from . . . headlines," the governor answered, "it did not seem like a profitable way to spend my time." Did he think he would get the nomination? He certainly did, "and after not too many ballots...
Fifth Ballot et seq. If Dewey has failed on the third, and Vandenberg has not shown a commanding upsurge on the fourth, the race will go to the best behind-the-scenes trader-Speaker Joe Martin, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, California's Governor Earl Warren or anybody else on whom the party's leaders can agree...
...Earl P. Haney of Winchester, Mass. was forced (by ulcers) "to give up a fine and highly paid position" and expect "a lingering death." He made what Author Carnegie calls a "rare and superb decision"; he set off on a round-the-world jaunt, taking his coffin with him. The undertaker has now bought back the coffin, and Mr. Haney, who stopped worrying en route, has "gained 90 pounds...