Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle-reading Democrat who solicited funds from friends for Truman in 1948. He has never run for office, although he toyed with the idea of opposing James Roosevelt for the 1950 Democratic nomination for governor of California, dropped the idea when he concluded that no Democrat could beat Republican Earl Warren...
Nephew Russell's heresy was not left unreprimanded, however. From Uncle George Long, elder brother of Earl and Huey, came the rumble of family anger. "It is a peculiar thing and an astonishing thing," he cried, "to see the son of Huey Long politically in bed with such people-people who plotted day after day to get his father out of office . . . Huey Long's boy . . . has blundered into this monstrous error, this hideous mistake, but please don't hate this boy, you good old Long people of Louisiana ... He is young...
...York State last year passed the "prudent man" rule. It allows trustees to buy common stocks, up to 35% of the trust's value, which a prudent man might buy for his own investment. Last week Irving Trust Co. Vice President Earl S. MacNeill reported that of $350 to $400 million eligible for such purchases in New York, trustees had invested not much more than half in common stocks. Reason: trustees think that stock prices are too high, are waiting to buy when they drop...
According to Earl Schenck Miers in The General Who Marched to Hell, the struggles of Sherman's mind within itself were as violent as the slashing offensives he launched against the Confederacy. Both campaigns, says Author Miers, had to be won before Sherman could celebrate the triumph of his career, the decisive march through Georgia...
...GENERAL WHO MARCHED TO HELL (349 pp.)-Earl Schenck Miers-Knopf...