Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent decades the South has given the U.S. Senate more than its share of sub-minor statesmen of the Heflin-Bilbo stamp. But the South has competition. Last week the confirmation of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. was being blocked by one man, the Bilbo of the North: North Dakota's Senator William Langer. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Langer, after weeks of delay, insisted on considering the charges in a handful of letters opposing Warren's appointment. Some of the letters are obviously from cranks, none of them contains any evidence to support...
Langer does not believe a word of these charges. He has known and liked Earl Warren for years, and even supported Warren for President of the U.S. The explanation of Langer's conduct lies in North Dakota politics-and very smalltime politics, at that...
Army's outspoken Football Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, irritated by persistent de-emphasizers of intercollegiate sports, took a flying tackle at them and their "theory of mediocrity." Said he gruffly: "They've made it so you feel there's something shameful about having a good team ... If they succeed in getting rid of football . . . they'll have Americans like the French, spending their time sitting around in sidewalk cafes, sipping drinks and eying the girls...
CROCODILE FEVER (293 pp.)-Lawrence Earl-Knopf...
...election was moderated by Earl M. Kulp 2GB, chairman of the Election Committee. Kulp explained to the Young Republicans that the reason membership cards were being checked at the door was to prevent any election fights from "being splashed over the front page of the newspapers...