Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...militants Marty and Tillon. Last week Le Figaro's expert, who signs himself "XXX," predicted that the next man marked for Communist oblivion is pudgy, acting Party Secretary General Jacques Duclos, who was once so powerful that, by writing an article in a French Communist magazine, he had Earl Browder kicked out of Communist leadership...
...outstanding service in behalf of youth," the Big Brothers of America, Inc. picked California's Governor Earl Warren for Big Brother...
Married. George Charles Montagu, 77, ninth Earl of Sandwich (whose 18th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, refused to interrupt his whist games for meals, insisted instead that a slab of meat and two slices of bread be brought to him at the gaming table, is thus credited with inventing the sandwich); and Amiya Corbin, 50, secretary of a Hollywood Hindu cult; both for the second time; in Huntingdon, England...
...comparable concession to austerity was made last week by England's Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, in charge of arrangements for Queen Elizabeth's coronation. At previous coronations, it was mandatory for peers attending the ceremony to wear crimson robes trimmed with ermine. This time, peers not taking direct part in the ceremonies may wear merely the mantle of an order of knighthood over formal evening dress (knee breeches optional). The wives of peers (below the rank of countess) may also come in ordinary evening dresses...
...hope that none of us thinks . . . that we can now return to some of the autocratic or paternalistic methods of dealing with employees . . . practiced in the past. We have learned a lot ... in recent years . . . and we dare not step backward." Said N.A.M.'s Managing Director Earl Bunting: "Self-interest dictates the highest order of industrial statesmanship ... in the public interest...