Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Earl Warren boarded an airliner and took off for Washington this week, a whole political era in California went with him. The independent Warren, who had built his political power on bipartisan support, turned the governorship over to Goodwin Jess Knight, a regular, conservative, organization Republican. The new governor, a back-thumping, bouncing lawyer of 56 who has served seven years as lieutenant governor, could not hope to win the Democrats who supported Warren. But the day Warren departed was a good day for "Goody" Knight. It meant that he will be running for governor next year...
While Knight was taking over as chief executive of the second most populous state, photographers were joyously demonstrating that he has at least some of the same political assets that Earl Warren had. Widower Knight has two lovely blonde daughters, Carolyn, 20, a student at the University of Southern California, and Marilyn, 26, who is Mrs. Robert Eaton, wife of a Los Angeles attorney. Californians were immediately intrigued by the prospect that one of the daughters will serve as father's hostess and thus be the new first lady of California...
Ancestry: His grandfather, Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, came to the U.S. in 1865 and changed his name to Harry Warren. Halvar's Norwegian-born son, Methias, and Swedish-born Chrystal Hernlund, who met and married in California in the 1880s, were Earl Warren's parents. Methias became master car repairman for a division of the Southern Pacific Railroad, turned into a mortgage-foreclosing recluse in his later years, was bludgeoned to death in his lonely Bakersfield, Calif, home in 1938. The motive was believed to be robbery; the crime has never been solved...
Early Years: Earl Warren was born March 19, 1891, in a five-room frame house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street, grew up in the "railroad section" of Bakersfield. He earned his spending money as a newsboy, a railroad callboy, a freight hustler, a farm hand and a cub reporter on the Bakersfield Californian. At Bakersfield's Kern County High School, he played clarinet in the school band and outfield on the baseball team. At the University of California, he was full of fun but not of diligence. He was a popular member of the Gun Club, which...
Family: In 1925, after four years of courtship, District Attorney Warren married Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a young widow with a six-year-old son, James. In addition to James, who was adopted and given the Warren name, they have two sons, Earl Jr., 23, and Robert, 18, and three photogenic daughters, Virginia, 25, Dorothy, 22, and Nina Elizabeth ("Honey Bear"), 19. Woeful California Democrats used to say: "You can beat Earl Warren, but how can you beat that family...