Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reactivated: H. L. Mencken, Baltimore's oldest volcano; by Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him. The volcano showed its age; the new rumblings were as sensationally noisy as the outbursts of the '20s, but now they sounded a lot more hollow: "I'm in favor of war and hope it starts soon. . . . The country enjoys war. . . . [The Japanese] are the only intelligent Orientals. . . . There's not an honest man in China. That reminds me, no American Indian has ever been worth a jolly good God damn, either. . . . [On Harry Truman] That quack! ... [On Harold Stassen] Another...
Thomas Erskine, son of the Scottish 10th Earl of Buchan, is still regarded by many legal scholars as the greatest advocate ever to come before a jury. Usually "for the defense," he pleaded the most historic cases in one of England's most history-packed periods. For his time, he was the great courtroom defender of English civil liberties...
...Earl Browder. 4. Henry Wallace...
...space of 24 hours last week, Governor Thomas E. Dewey had two callers who set political tongues wagging. One was California's Governor Earl Warren. The other was Minnesota's ex-Governor Harold Stassen...
Junior Davis was easily the best collegiate athlete since Jim Thorpe, the Carlisle Indian-and possibly the greatest of them all. Said Army's Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik last week: "You take Thorpe . . . I'll take Davis...