Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excitement of choosing Tom Dewey over Harold Stassen (see Republicans), Portland voters did not forget that they were also electing a mayor. Last week they rose up against flashy, cigar-chewing Earl Riley, who had been picked by the OWI as a "typical U.S. mayor" and sent on a wartime mission to Britain (TIME, Sept. 13, 1943). In Riley's place they named-for the first time in the city's history-a woman...
GETTYSBURG (308 pp.)-Earl Schenck Miers and Richard A. Brown-Rutgers...
...Earl held a reception at the governor's mansion, beamed and shook hundreds of hands. He topped off the evening by leading the grand march at an inaugural ball. His day of triumph produced only one painful incident. He had been reminded again that Louisiana's voters loved brother Huey's 29-year-old son, Russell, better than they loved him. When Russell, a slightly sharper-featured replica of his snub-faced father, made a short speech, he got the biggest cheer of the afternoon...
Three days after the inauguration, Louisiana's 72-year-old Senator John H. Overton-who had refused to back Earl in the election-died in Bethesda Naval Hospital. His vacant Senate seat gave the Longs an easy and unexpected means of strengthening their political hold on Louisiana. Governor Earl prepared to appoint a friend-probably a Monroe oil millionaire named William C. Feazel-on condition that the appointee would not run for the office after the interim term expired. In November, having achieved the Senate's 30-year minimum age, Nephew Russell would run, with every chance...
Died. John Holmes Overton, 72, U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 1933, creature of the late Huey Long, but no fellow traveler of Huey's brother, Earl, the new governor of Louisiana ; after an abdominal operation; in Bethesda, Md. Senator Overton distinguished himself chiefly by plugging ceaselessly for flood control and against daylight saving time...