Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply furnished, two-room Manhattan office sat a tired-looking, greying man. Leaning back in his chair, he puffed on his pipe, leafed through a magazine, occasionally looked out the window at the drab court below. Earl Browder, onetime boss of U.S. Communists, looked like any little businessman waiting for customers...
...daydream much like the daydreams of 100,000 other soldier flyers. Unlike most others, this one was backed by 1) plenty of cash and 2) rough-&-ready business savvy. Both were supplied largely by two brothers, dark-haired, studious Thomas Baker Slick Jr., 29, and sandy-haired, easygoing Earl Frates Slick, 25-Money & Ideas. The Slick brothers are sons of famed Tom Slick, "king of the wildcatters," and stepsons of Oilman Charles Urschel* (after Tom Slick died, his partner Urschel married his widow). The brothers were not content to live on $10,000 a year apiece left them by their...
...four-day visit was a personal triumph-and something more. Canadians appreciated his direct, sincere praise of Canadian fighting men, the way he stepped from his car in the sleet for an unscheduled salute to the National War Memorial, and stood between Prime Minister Mackenzie King and the Earl of Athlone and sang God Save the King. They liked the honesty with which he said he hated war, would "devote what talents I have for the rest of my days to working for peace...
...this activity was an effort on the part of Democrats to oust Republican Governor Earl Warren and his protege in the Senate, young Bill Knowland. While Senator Knowland seemed vulnerable if hit sufficiently hard, no Democrat in his right mind would yet predict shrewd, able Governor Warren's defeat...
...Earl of Halifax, towering, impenetrably well-mannered British Ambassador to the U.S., denied that he was being recalled, but knew just what he would do when he was. Said the well-heeled Lord of Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire: "I'm going to become a farmer...