Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Washington, Louisiana's boyish-looking Russell Long, son of the late Huey, nephew of Governor Earl and the youngest member (32) of the U.S. Senate, sent word to the homefolks: he would support Congressman Hale Boggs in the 1952 race for governor. Boggs, who is young himself (37), won his Congress seat in 1946 on an anti-Long reform ticket. It was one more sign that Russell Long was determined not to be a chip off the old block. Senators familiar with Huey's demagogic ways are impressed by Russell's dogged and unflamboyant performance...
...moment, Uncle Earl chose not to respond to Nephew Russell's heresy. But, barred by law from succeeding himself as governor, he was toying with the idea of running for lieutenant governor and towing a governor of his own choice on his coattails. Besides, he said, being lieutenant governor is "the best job in the state. He can go hunting or fishing any time he wants to. He gets $7,500 a year, a house to live in, an expense account equal to the governor's-and groceries...
...gained. What Ike lost was divided up between New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey (16%), who announced last fall without qualification that he was an Ike man; Stassen (10%), who says he is also for the general; and California's Earl Warren (13%) who isn't saying...
...morning last week. As his staffers drifted in, he called them into his office to break the surprising news he had heard only the afternoon before. Then he sat down and wrote the news for Page One, took the story to the composing room himself. Composing Room Superintendent Earl Barker read it and gasped: the Star-Times had been sold to the rival Post-Dispatch (circ. 290,052), would publish no more after that afternoon's press...
...usual, the statesmen were prominently represented. Governor Earl Warren of California won a Doctorate of Political Science from the University of Alaska. Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois got LL.D.s from both Ohio's Oberlin College and Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Western Reserve in Ohio honored two Senators: Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Ohio's Robert A. Taft...