Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Party in California is divided into three factions. On top is the machine run by Senator William F. Knowland and Governor Earl Warren. In opposition are 1) a conservative wing led by Lieutenant Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight; 2) the Young Turks, who more or less look upon Richard Nixon as their leader. Nixonites and Knowland-Warrenites got especially sore at each other during last year's presidential campaign. Never enthusiastic about Nixon's vice-presidential candidacy, Warrenites failed to come to his support when the "Nixon fund" squall broke. Then, after the election, Knowland took over...
...Admiration." Early in the first act, a weary and worn figure stepped before the camera. Earl Russell Browder, the deposed chief of U.S. Communists, was to be asked about three of his books (number of copies unknown) found in the U.S. overseas libraries. To show the kind of material in the books, the subcommittee read a Browder paragraph into the record: "There is no way out except by seizing from the capitalists the industries, the banks, and all of the economic institutions and transforming them into the common property of all under the direction of the revolutionary government...
Although there was no secret about his Communist background, Earl Browder would answer no "substantive" question. His reason: "The chairman of this committee has publicly declared that he is out to get me . . ." Now, now, clucked McCarthy, hadn't his testimony kept Browder out of jail in 1951 ? Yes, said Browder, but McCarthy did that only because it served his own interests. Chairman Joe, who in 1951 testified that Browder was not in contempt of the anti-McCarthy Tydings committee, replied that he had done it to serve justice. Said he evenly: "May I say that I have...
...nearly 1,000 shoestring air-cargo lines started by ex-service airmen after World War II, only a handful survived. Last week the two biggest survivors, Robert W. Prescott's Flying Tiger Line, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 5, 1945 et seq.) and Tom and Earl Slick's Slick Airways, Inc. (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946 et seq.), decided to cut the number still more by merging...
Died. Frederic Rodrigo Gruger, 82, dean of U.S. magazine illustrators who helped design he Satevepost's first modern cover, illustrated John Marquand's "Mr Moto" yarns and Earl Derr Biggers' "Charlie Chan" series...