Word: earls
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Despite losing several players to the junior varsity, Winthrop is a strong threat to the defending champion, Dudley. Two of last year's freshman team, Lou Newell and Earl Silbert, team with Matt Grossman on the first line. Orville Tice and Dan Pierce are at defense. John Amory, last year's defenseman, and Ned Felton, another former freshman player, will start playing next term, Senior Frank Long is in the goal...
Died. Raissa Irene Berkman Browder, 58, Russian-born wife of Earl Browder, deposed head (1946) of the Communist Party in the U.S., and mother of his three sons; after long illness; in Yonkers, N.Y. Raissa Berkman married Browder in Moscow in 1926, entered the U.S. from Canada in 1933, waged a four-year fight to avoid deportation on grounds of illegal entry. In a politically unpopular decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals permitted her to leave the country and re-enter as a quota immigrant in 1944. She was later barred from naturalization, at the time of her death...
...arrested in Boston for selling the issue of his American Mercury that contained the story of a casual prostitute called Hatrack (she took her customers to cemeteries*), Mencken retained Hays. When the Countess Cathcart was denied entry to the U.S. because she had had an affair with the Earl of Craven (the Earl was admitted without a fuss), Hays was at her side. In his autobiography, City Lawyer, Hays recalls that when the Countess was brought before a deportation board of inquiry, she asked: "But haven't you men ever committed adultery?" The board, Hays reported, replied almost...
...American who has lived and worked in Asia during most of the past 16 years, I nominate Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...elected to the Republican State Central Committee at 22, became California's youngest assemblyman at 24, its youngest state senator at 26, the youngest Republican National Committeeman at 30, and, at 33, the Republican National Committee's youngest Executive Committee chairman ever. In 1945, Governor Earl Warren, who got his political start from old Joe Knowland, appointed Joe's son Billy to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Hiram Johnson. The news first reached Major Knowland in Paris when he read of his appointment in Stars & Stripes. At 37, he was the youngest...