Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophomore Dave Gately could be the answer to the team's broad jump problems, but he also lacks support. Henry Wente, Warren Plath, Mayo, or Rosenthal must improve...
That career was soon linked, in a way that made political history, to the career of another fast-rising California Republican: Alameda County District Attorney Earl Warren. Old J.R. always had been a staunch backer of young Earl Warren. Warren and Billy first met about the time Herbert Hoover was campaigning against Al Smith in 1928. Warren was struck by the political skill and vigor of the man 17 years his junior. Says Warren: "You had to admire him." The admiration was mutual. Knowland became a leading spirit among the young California Republicans who were later Warren's greatest...
Succeeding Earl Warren as California's Republican national committeeman (Warren resigned to become state attorney general), Knowland used the post to travel the length and breadth of the state, getting to know people and letting them know him. He made news on being elected chairman of the Republican National Committee's executive committee, posed for pictures with every leading G.O.P. candidate who came through town, including Republican Leaders Tom Dewey and Wendell Willkie. He was, in fact, carefully preparing for the day when Hiram Johnson's Senate place would become vacant...
...bound for Europe as a public information and military government officer. It was in the summer of 1945 when Major William Knowland, drinking coffee in an Army cafeteria in Paris, picked up a copy of Stars and Stripes and read that he had been appointed by Governor Earl Warren to succeed the late Hiram Johnson in the U.S. Senate...
...camp came strong hints that the vice-presidential nomination could be his. From the Taft forces (but not from Taft himself) came a direct promise that support for the Ohioan would give Knowland second place on the national ticket. But Knowland and his delegation were pledged to back Earl Warren for President-and Bill Knowland has never broken his word. At Chicago, disturbed by reports that his Senate Colleague Richard Nixon was trying to get the California delegation to defect to Ike. Knowland called a secret caucus arid faced his delegation shaking with anger. "I just want everyone in this...