Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...column headed "others," no candidacy had any reality. California's Earl Warren got 81 votes, 70 from his own state, and no more were in sight. Before Minnesota made the big switch to Ike, Harold Stassen had 20. What Stassen thought he was doing as a candidate is still a mystery; the best explanation is that failure has gone to his head. Douglas MacArthur was never a candidate, had asked his supporters to vote for Taft. But his "candidacy" had caused silly headlines, rumors and demonstrations right up to the balloting. He got the votes of only ten delegates...
When Bob came home, two weeks later, 10,000 Tulareans lined the road from the airport to the town. Mayor Elmo Zumwalt presented Bob with the keys to the city. At the Elks Club, the reception was so warm "that we threw away the key." Governor Earl Warren's speech of welcome was heard by thousands of happy Tulareans at the fair grounds. Nowadays, Southern Pacific railway conductors call Tulare "Mathiasville." Signs at both ends of town proclaim: "Tulare, Home of Bob Mathias, Olympic and U.S. Decathlon Champion...
California's Governor Earl Warren reminded Republicans that "a day of reckoning" would come in November. Michigan's Dr. John Wood, a Republican delegate who had once supported Taft, was more specific: "If Taft is the nominee, I will still work for him, but it will be a losing fight...
Divorced. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 80, mathematician, philosopher, author, lecturer; by Countess Russell, the former Patricia Helen Spence, 41, his third wife and onetime secretary, who charged desertion; after 16 years of marriage, one son; in London...
Many-perhaps a majority-of Britons expected Field Marshal Earl Alexander's fact-finding tour of Korea to become a fault-finding tour. They could not have been more wrong...