Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disgraced Comrade who (by his own admission) spoke only 40 words of Russian, Earl Russell Browder was doing all right...
...Friend Browder's desk, reporters noted a traveling chess board. Said he chattily: "I like to wrestle with chess problems." This was in the best Communist tradition (Marx, Lenin and Trotsky had all been rabid chess strategists); but Communism's most perplexing chess problem was still Earl himself...
LONDON. SHERROD SAYS EARL OF HOUSTON NOW RETURNING TO ENGLAND FROM SERVICE AS WAVELL'S AIDE IS RUMORED BY FRIENDS TO BE ELIZABETH'S PROSPECTIVE HUSBAND STOP IF THERE'S ANY BASIS WANT TO DO STORY ON HIM STOP PLEASE ADVISE...
Ever since haggard, bitter Earl Browder had been dethroned as U.S. Communist boss last July, for deviation from the party line, he has been the Party's No. i anathema. A withering pamphlet entitled "The Path of a Renegade" relegated him to the "gutter of history," denounced him as a lackey of Big Business. Cried the pamphlet: "Browder fostered . . . the fiction that there exists somewhere, some international Communist tribunal that determines policy for our Party, that our Party is not a fully independent Party of the American working class." In his weekly typewritten "Distributors Guide-A Service for Policy...
Monday dawned, and Moscow still said nothing of Earl Browder's whereabouts. Brooks Atkinson cabled to the New York Times: "He has had sufficient time to reach Moscow, unpack his bag, shave, take a bath. . . . This bureau's staff of efficient secretaries, couriers, chauffeurs and writers-in that order of relative importance -cannot locate Earl. Let us know if you hear anything...