Word: earls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard [Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.] Butz was thinking of resigning, and when I heard that, I got right on the phone to tell him not to do it," said Iowa Congressman Bill Scherle, standing outside the House chamber during a debate on the farm bill. "He's our friend. If we lose him we lose...
...ministers of the Conservative government-Earl Jellicoe, Tory Leader in the House of Lords, and Lord Lambton, parliamentary Under Secretary of Defense for the Royal Air Force-resigned after it was disclosed that they had been patronizing London call girls. In the report of his investigation of this matter, Lord Diplock very carefully weighed each minister's indiscretion on different-oddly different -scales. Jellicoe, it was pointed out, used only "escort agencies" advertised in the London papers, dealt with the girls under an assumed name and never "spoke to them of anything remotely related to his work...
...expressive set which was not, however, as good as his previous performance. Billy Taylor, formally the leader of the band on the David Frost Show, played brilliantly. His skillful quotations were full of polish and wit, and they showed a musical form deeply rooted in the classical tradition. Earl "Father" Hines, perhaps the most acclaimed jazz pianist alive, captivated the audience by holding a right hand trill for five complete courses, simultaneously improvising with his left hand. His performance was the most flashy and exciting of the night, and it served as a fitting finale to an excellent concert...
...sign of the times that the White House list of "enemies" contained not a single Communist, nor even the U.S. Communist Party. No one would have appreciated that irony more than Earl Russell Browder, 82, general secretary of the party from 1930 to 1945, who died in his sleep last week...
...Died. Earl Browder, 82, former general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party (see THE NATION...