Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey arrived in Salt Lake City for the governors' convention this week, he was as self-assured as ever. His backers figured that he had 393 sure convention votes of the 547 needed for nomination. Western Republicans were already warning California's Governor Earl Warren that unless he got off the fence soon, western delegates would swing to Dewey. And Dewey men confidently cited the political dogma that, the more Democratic opposition stiffened, the more professional GOPsters would turn to Tom Dewey as the one man who could carry the Republicans into office. They were confident that...
...Independence Day, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee presented to the House of Commons an Indian independence bill. It was, said the bespectacled, scholarly Earl of Listowel, last Secretary of State for India, a "nice, neat, tidy little bill." The bill was certainly neater than the mess Indians will try to clear up before the British leave on August...
...Earl Browder, onetime boss of the U.S. Communist Party, was arrested for spitting in a Bronx subway, pleaded guilty, paid a $2 fine...
Housing Project. In East Peoria, Ill., someone gently dismantled and took away Earl Allen's prefabricated house...
...Earl Wilson began a column: "I want it understood that I am one newspaperman who knows absolutely nothing about Bugsy Siegel's murder." But he couldn't resist the urge a few paragraphs further to be on the inside too: "Word was passed around about three weeks ago that he was going to get himself into a lot of trouble...