Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began with a politician's quiet tip to the Journal's veteran political editor, Earl Gregory. The Telfair ballots, he said, had been fixed. The Journal sent a young reporter named George Goodwin down to Telfair. He made the mistake of telling someone that he was from an Atlanta paper. County officials ducked him, or gave him vague answers. Disheartened, he returned to Atlanta without a story. Then he began digging in the State Secretary's office. In the bottom of a carton full of election-return envelopes, he came across the list of voters from Helena...
...following men are the House representatives of the business board: Earl L. Smith '46, (Adams), William R. Chandler '46 (Dunster), Charles B. Bronston '46 (Eliot), John W. Callaban '46 (Kirkland), Thomas H. Land '46 (Leverett), William L. Markey '46 (Lowell, and Archibaid T. Morrison, Jr. '46 (Winthrop...
...last November-when he was head & shoulders above all others. Part of the reason was simply that a lot of GOPsters never liked him and still don't. Part was that the spotlight is now on Washington, not Albany. Talk of a tie-up with California's Earl Warren, which would strengthen his hand in the West, was dying out. On top of that there was the feeling expressed by one Midwesterner: "He has had his chance and now it's someone else's turn...
Other contenders were gaining on the leaders. In a poll of G.O.P. Senators. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg was out ahead of both Dewey and Taft. John Bricker was still holding his own as the darling of the Old Guard; Earl Warren was still the fair-haired boy in the West. A new favorite son was moving up: Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall...
Last week the Star was in mourning. The day after its presses had rolled (after a carriers' strike), its white-haired president, Earl McCollum, had died. The man who took command last week, after briskly settling the strike, was ably affable Roy Allison Roberts, 59, the fat and florid extrovert who, as managing editor for 19 years, has been the driving force behind the strongest newspaper monopoly...