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...Utah-born New Dealer whose first official act after his election in 1938 was to pardon Labor Organizer Tom Mooney from life imprisonment for the bombing of a 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade, and who was beaten in a re-election bid by his own Republican attorney general. Earl Warren; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
...Supreme Court has been badly split in recent years between a "liberal" bloc (Chief Justice Earl Warren. Hugo Black. Douglas and Brennan) and a "conservative" bloc (Frankfurter. Clark...
Falling back upon that most cherished of British last resorts-the letter to the London Times-the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres solemnly intervened in a crisis that had united the United Kingdom in common indignation. The earl wrote in his capacity as chairman of the National Art-Collections Fund-a body founded 59 years ago expressly to protect Britain's treasures from falling into the hands of acquisitive American millionaires. Now the fund was out to protect Leonardo's exquisite drawing of the Virgin and child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, which its owner...
...academy responded warmly to the Earl of Crawford's letter ("We've always wanted to keep this great work in Britain"), and reduced its price to a mere ?800,000. If this sum is not raised, however, the drawing will go on the block after all. "A pretty stiff bargain," sniffed the Daily Herald, but then went on to decry the whole by-jingo fuss: "There is something slightly ridiculous about the present outburst of patriotic excitement to retain this Italian drawing, for the national habit is to get art on the cheap." The Herald might have added...
...pompous. The average rock 'n roll hit does not usually have more than one or two verses of any consequence, and often there are little more than a dozen major words in the whole song. (A recent, but almost classic example of word paucity is the "Duke of Earl...