Word: wil
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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...
...went out on 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...
Over the living-room mantle, as in a shrine, hangs a portrait of Woodrow Wil son, by Sir William Orpen, perhaps the best portrait of Wilson ever made. In the ballroom, in pre-rationing days, he some times dined as many as 96 people, to the accompaniment of footmen in bright blue livery...
Speaking of April 1st reminds us of the event of the day. Payment for all classbooks wil be accepted that day by class representatives. Don't bother putting the money in your pocket. Less trouble if you just pass it from Pay to you book collector. Absolutely no fifties will be changed...
...phone talking with Ensign Marie Gaertner, administrative officer of the Radcliffe WAVES; result, the scheduling of tomorrow evening's WAVE-Business School mixer to be given in Chase Hall from 8:30 to 11:30, Cadet Bob Byers and his 12-piece "Hot Rythm Stompers" wil create something like music for the occasion...