Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, Comrade Earl Browder slipped stealthily out of the country under an assumed name, toting a phony passport. But Passenger Browder's papers were all quite correct last week as he impatiently awaited the departure of a Stockholm-bound airliner from New York's LaGuardia Field...
Safely in Stockholm, Earl Browder's frozen tongue thawed. To Scandinavian correspondents he confided that he was en route to Moscow to "study political life...
...Duclos, one-time pastry cook, is Secretary General of the French Communists; he is also a sort of unofficial foster parent for national Communist parties outside of Russia. Last year, in the French Communist organ Les Cahiers du Communisme, he administered a polemical spanking that unseated U.S. Communist Boss Earl Browder. Last week he turned his admonitory attention to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
Since 1943 the Eighth Earl has watched patiently his famed beeches, stud farm, fish ponds, woodlands, paddocks, and avenues turned to black gaping wounds as the Government dug out coal. Peace, he hoped vaguely, might come in time to save his lawns and gardens...
...last week, as the bulldozers kept on snorting, the Earl had had enough. Off he went to London to protest in person to Clement Attlee. Solidly behind him was the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. In Wentworth village pubs the local tenantry shook their heads. Even the Yorkshire coal miners, led by union president Joseph Hall, voiced their objections. Said the Manchester Guardian approvingly: "The people of the north were deprived of space, light and beauty by the ravages of the industrial revolution ... it is evident that the miners attach a real value to the preservation...