Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generals still professed to see no signs of a large-scale Communist offensive. Britain's Defense Minister, Field Marshal Earl Alexander, conferred with Generals Clark and Van Fleet, and repeated the current U.N. line: if the Communists attack they "would take a terrific loss and would not break through...
Wrong Answer. In Great Falls, Mont., Earl Phipps, 58, panhandled money by showing prospects a sign reading: "I am deaf and dumb," landed in jail after a policeman asked him where the sign was, and he replied: "Right here in my pocket...
Helping Hand. In Sacramento, Hubert Earl Buntain, 65, questioned by authorities about at least eight marriages, explained: "It is in my system to help others...
...Earl Warren, who did not do well with his primary forays in Wisconsin and Oregon, ran into trouble in his own state. He won the presidential-preference vote and California's 70 delegates, but he did not win handily; a slate with nothing to offer except opposition to Warren got more than half a million votes. The anti-Warren slate's in-name-only candidate for President was Representative Thomas H. Werdel of Bakersfield. His chief cry: Warren is not really a candidate for President, but wants to deal for a place in a national Republican administration...
With these results to consider, politicians began to revise their thinking about California. Earl Warren has dim prospects as a compromise candidate in a situation that seems more & more to be a straight Ike-Taft contest. California's more promising figure now is Knowland, who has the bark & grain of vice-presidential timber...