Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covered the 1933 bank holiday, the Bonus Army's march, the Little Steel strike and the shooting of "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and he survived a mid-air collision at the National Air Races. He covered World War II as a correspondent. He has interviewed, among others, Lord Halifax, Earl Browder, Newton D. Baker, Clarence Darrow, John Barrymore and Gertrude Stein, who told him "a newspaperman is too immediate to be immediate...
...Earl B. Myott, Superintendent of Engineers for the Massachusetts Transit Authority, said, "If the system is expanded, it probably would be more profitable or us to operate car-yards out in Arlington...
Four years ago the British Labor government abolished flogging. The curve of crime increase immediately flattened out, rose slightly in 1950, leveled off again in 1951. Now it is about to hit a new high. What disturbs Britons today is not crime incidence so much as crime violence. Said Earl Howe, in the House of Lords: "You can hardly pick up a newspaper without seeing some report of a case where . . . gangsters have [attacked] some inoffensive, defenseless person [with] a revolver, a cosh,* a bicycle chain, or a razor...
...dedication ceremony, CBS brought out a flock of stars-M.C. Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Lucille Ball, plus such other big California names as Governor Earl Warren and Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron (who all turned in first-rate performances). The program, like most such, was long (60 minutes) and draggy, but it perked up in spots. Sample: Gracie Allen telling Governor Warren about the "deplorable" excessive drinking in the Senate-"I read about Senator Knowland trying to make a speech from the floor-and the Speaker of the House was even in worse condition-he didn...
...weeks ago the main speaker at the PU meeting was Simon Gerson, secretary of the Communist Party of New York. Next week's featured attraction will be Col. Robert R. McCormick, Yale '03. Speakers in the past have included Harold Stassen, Robert Taft, Norman Thomas, Earl Browder, Justice Robert H. Jackson, and Justice Tom Clark...