Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland, son of a wealthy and powerful publisher-politician from Oakland, in the northern half of the state, was born and bred to politics. He served long at local and state levels before he vaulted into the U.S. Senate in 1945 on an appointment from California's Earl Warren...
Drafted into the Army as a private in 1942, Knowland had risen to major and was serving in France when California's Governor Earl Warren appointed him to the U.S. Senate vacancy created by the death of Hiram Johnson. California politicians generally regarded this as payment of a political debt to Knowland's millionaire father, who had started Warren on his career and whose daily Oakland Tribune had long supported the governor. In 1946 Knowland trounced Democrat Will Rogers Jr. Last year he won both the Republican and Democratic nominations with a total of 2,308,051 votes...
...open secret that California's Governor Earl Warren, 62, would like a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. But the present nine justices are spry, sturdy fellows (Bill Douglas, 54, is a mountain climber; Hugo Black. 67, still plays tennis), and they like their jobs. The best hope for Governor Warren-and for California's Lieutenant Governor Goodwin J. Knight, who would like to have Warren's job-is that the oldest member of the court, Felix Frankfurter, 70, might soon retire...
...bluebloods. They mistrust him: his politics are comparatively liberal; he plays loose with some of the stuffier conventions of the palace; he is a foreigner-a Greek prince naturalized as a British citizen; but above all, he is a Battenberg, and a nephew of the dashing, controversial Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his equally controversial wife Edwina...
...Chicago, a center of the U.S. television industry, old hands catalogued brash, upstart young Earl W. (for William) Muntz as merely another California screwball when he invaded their city and their business four years ago. They knew that "Madman" Muntz's zany advertising, depicting himself as a lunatic in a Napoleon hat ("I buy 'em retail, sell 'em wholesale. More fun that way!") had made him the used-car king of Los Angeles. But they assumed that the tough TV business would soon drive him really crazy...