Word: warrene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This otherwise passing incident was duck soup for California's Republican Attorney General Earl Warren, who was after Mark Megladdery on charges more serious than nocturnal brawling. Mark Megladdery was secretary to Governor Frank Finley Merriam until that aging (73) Republican was deposed last year by Democrat Culbert Levy Olson. Just before Frank Merriam stepped down, he appointed his 33-year-old lawyer-secretary to the Superior Court of Alameda County. Judge Megladdery was assigned no cases by his fellow judges because at that point to Attorney General Warren went Banker Joseph H. Stephens, a member of the State...
...Earl Warren was delighted about all this, for if disgruntled old U. S. Senator Hiram Johnson decides not to run in 1940, and Earl Warren goes out for the job, he may have to beat out Frank Finley Merriam. Handed the makings of a useful Merriam-Megladdery scandal, ambitious Earl Warren set a grand jury after Mark Megladdery, revealing that in 1936-37 he deposited $6,000 more than his salary, that his propensity for passing rubber checks had extended to State bureaus and even to Miss De Vine...
...errors in making this statement. Try as I will, I can find only the following six occupants of the White House originating in Ohio. They are, in order of their administrations: Wm. H. Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, William H. Taft and Warren G. Harding...
...Warren E. Fleischner '42, of Milton, has been appointed Freshman baseball manager for 1939. He will manage the team for the rest of the week, including the Yale game on Saturday, according to Varsity baseball manager, John L. Allen...
...When soft coal labor negotiations reached a crucial deadlock the President called operators and miners to the White House. As a prelude to ordering them to reach agreement (see p. 20), he reminded them that a lot of his family's money came from coal. His rich Grandfather Warren Delano had anthracite holdings in eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later...