Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earl C. Ravenal '53 of Eliot House and Providence, and Paul F. Cooper '52 of Lowell House and Cooperstown, N.Y. have received Henry Fellowships for one year's study in England, trustees of the Henry Fund announced yesterday...
LOUISIANA A Dynasty Ends When Louisiana's Governor Earl Long got to thinking about the end of his term this year, he mulled over some ideas for carrying on the Long dynasty. Louisiana law bars a governor from succeeding himself, so why not have a constitutional convention and extend all officeholders' terms for two years? The citizens seemed to object to that, so Earl thought of another arrangement: he would run for lieutenant governor with a dummy candidate for governor; then the dummy would resign after a couple of days in office, and Earl would step back...
Bitter Victory. In the January Democratic primary, Earl's man ran first in a field of nine (TIME, Jan. 28). But it was a bitter victory. Spaht got 158,839 votes, only about one-third of the total. The second man, tall, homespun Judge Robert F. Kennon of Minden, had 154,812. That called for a runoff. The seven losing candidates promptly swung behind Kennon...
...opponents of the Long dynasty had some interesting points to raise. Earl had carried on for the family after Brother Huey ("Kingfish") was cut down by an assassin in 1935, seven years after he had founded the line. Earl lost control when the citizens revolted and turned him out of the governor's office in 1940, but he staged a comeback in 1948. In the governor's chair once again, he out-Hueyed Huey and his "make every man a king" program. Earl gave the state big old-age pensions, cheap school lunches, veterans' bonuses and highway...
Said Governor Earl Warren as he made the award: "New buildings are wonderful and necessary, but they don't cure anybody. We need people with warm hearts, understanding minds, willing hands and a great love for humanity-in short, people like Mrs. Bray...