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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith named 76 contributors to the fund and the amounts they had paid. The average contribution was around $250. The biggest was $1,000 by a retired Pasadena businessman. The names resembled a Who's Who of Southern California business, included Oilman Earl Gilmore, President P. G. Winnett of Bullock's department store, President Joe Crail of the Coast Federal Savings & Loan Association, Manufacturer K. T. Norris, Charles S. Howard, wealthy heir to an automobile fortune and socialite turfman, three members of the wealthy Los Angeles Rowan real estate family, and Civil Engineer Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Remarkable Tornado | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...California, Governor Earl Warren controls the Republican organization-and Warren is not much of a party organization man. He is reluctant to endorse or help other state candidates (and never did support Nixon in the 1950 senatorial campaign). Such polite anarchy creates an every-man-for-himself situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Common Practices | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...just before Financier Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp. bought 93.6% of the voting stock (TIME, May 9, 1949). Young now controls I.D.S.'s $1 billion by the $1,968,000 he put up for the stock at $17 a share. He kept I.D.S.'s President Earl E. Crabb, 69, and its star salesman, Vice President Grady Clark, 50. But he made his own right-hand man, able Lawyer Robert W. Purcell, chairman of I.D.S.'s executive committee, and set him bird-dogging I.D.S.'s investments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: How to Save a Buck | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

There will be many more stops on the schedule before it is complete. One of these was pointed out last week by California's Governor Earl Warren. The California Poll, supported by a group of newspapers, shows Ike leading Stevenson 53% to 39%. But Earl Warren called his state "doubtful," and said it can be won only by a hard campaign. Replied Ike: That's exactly the kind of campaign it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Wardrobe Problems | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...Winston's younger brother. Father won a D.S.O. in the Boer War, died in 1947; mother, an Edwardian beauty, died in 1941. "True blue-blood," descended on her father's side from John Churchill, first Duke to Marlborough (1650-1722); on her mother's from the Earls of Abingdon (the present eighth earl is Clarissa's cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CLARISSA CHURCHILL EDEN | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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