Word: liam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book had scarcely appeared before Harry Hopkins denounced the letter as a forgery. On second thought he set the FBI asleuthing. Republican Senator Wil liam Langer of North Dakota thought the Senate ought to investigate, too. He said he wanted to find out if Hopkins was "now dabbling in Republican politics." He made a 57-page speech in the Senate, illustrating it with photostats of letters Sparks had given to him. These were let ters between Sparks and a man named George N. Briggs. If they were genuine, they indicated that Briggs had given Sparks "The Hopkins Letter...
...strike. The family moved 110 miles north to Bakersfield, then still something of a frontier town. Governor Warren recalls the day as a child when he was riding his donkey down the main street and ran spang into the running gun battle in which Deputy Sheriff Wil liam E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, was killed by an outlaw. (Thirty-five years later, Earl Warren's father, who had branched out into real estate, was found murdered in his Bakersfield home. The crime is still unsolved.) Young Earl Warren started his working life as a call boy, waking...
...pornography but such books as Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed, one edition of Baedeker, the essays of William Ralph Inge, longtime "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's, and five bedtime stories. They also clamped down on most of the tales of the most distinguished Irish novelists, including Liam O'Flaherty...
...after they learned yesterday that the peace Council was unable to secure the speakers originally scheduled to address the rally, Senator Walsh, and Senator Wheeler. In place of the two senators, the peace Council had substituted as speaker Vito Marcantonia, Congressman from New York with reputed radical leanings, and Liam O'Flaherty, the Irish playwright...
...Government prepared to appoint regional commissioners with power to administer their respective areas if the central administration was disorganized. Adjutant General Colonel Liam Hayes issued a call for 10,000 volunteers within a week. Full-page newspaper advertisements blared out the need for 400,000 volunteers to supplement the regular Army's 70,000 and 120,000 volunteers already under arms. "Everyone who can walk should join the Army," urged Dail members...