Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodge sat down to applause, whistles and cheers. ("He came to San Francisco a boy and departed a man," cracked a reporter.) Earl Warren pumped his hand. Dave Ingalls stepped up for a quick congratulation, then slipped out through the crowd...
...glance around the Taft suite confirmed, the meeting was an occasion for the first real show of strength for the 1952 Republican Convention. Across the street in the Fairmont Hotel, Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. set up Eisenhower headquarters on a smaller scale. California's Governor Earl Warren got little traffic either in his public suite at the Fairmont or his downtown hideout at the St. Francis. Candidate Harold Stassen arrived late, and few people bothered to seek him out. Taft himself stayed away, but reckoning by pamphlets, badges ("No Me-Too in 1952") and hotel rooms...
Frozen Smile. As host, Earl Warren spoke first. Three weeks earlier he had called Ingalls' pre-election tactics "arrogant" and "insulting." Now, goaded again on his home ground, Warren detoured pointedly from his earnest good-of-the-party theme. "We have our problems," he said, "because we have extremists of the right-those who would freeze our nation into the status quo with whatever inequalities go with it." Then he read off, one by one, the liberal planks of the 1948 G.O.P. platform. "If this platform has been vetoed," he said, "I would like to know by whose authority...
Ingalls finished and looked up. Taftmen leaped to their feet to applaud, but the ovation was noticeably lighter than it had been at the beginning. Two seats away, Earl Warren, his face frozen in a faint quarter-smile, applauded perfunctorily. Cabot Lodge gave two handclaps, got up from the speakers' table and strode angrily from the platform...
...Earl J. McGrath, Commissioner of Education, said that both "aptitude and means" tests would determine the stipends of the selected students which would not exceed $800 a year. The youths would choose their own colleges...