Word: culbert
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While some questioned the constitutionality of wholesale deportations, California Governor Culbert Olson demanded action. So did the ambitious state attorney general, who would someday become Chief Justice of the U.S., Earl Warren. Expedient arguments could always be found. Though no Japanese Americans had actually committed sabotage, wrote the eminent columnist Walter Lippmann, "it is a sign that the blow is well organized and held back until it can be struck with maximum effect." Said General DeWitt...
...some, low prices are only part of the attraction. Says Luanne Culbert, a New Jersey chiropractor's wife who gave up her job as a stockbroker to raise her daughter Erin, 2: "It's a great day in the fresh air without the hubbub of the mall. I look for things that aren't in the department stores...
...legend that is now coming apart traces back to 1940. That year Governor Culbert Olson appointed both Chief Justice Phil Gibson and Associate Justice Roger Traynor. Gibson was a master administrator, Traynor a brilliant theorist. Together they molded an efficient statewide judiciary led by a supreme court whose decisions were often artful expansions of existing law that created new rights for California's citizens. During its heyday in the 1960s, judges across the country frequently followed California's lead in criminal and consumer rights...
...sheer wanton stubbornness. I should like to cut off your head with a meat axe." Without Jan Lewis's acid-coated delivery and Hutson's wry cool on stage, Coward's play would never escape the quagmire it so richly deserves. Mark Swiney, Carla Dragoni, and Patsy Culbert portray brilliantly the assorted pathologies of organic brain damage, a chronic symptom of Coward's background characters...
...Victorian mansion that has been used by California Governors over the past 60 years looks something like a three-tiered wedding cake. But most of its tenants have had complaints. One of them. Governor Culbert Olson (1939-1943), fell through the crumbling front steps. The latest, Pat Brown, is awakened at dawn each day by trucks that rumble past the house and shake it to its ancient foundations. Brown is also slightly apprehensive about the coil of rope he must keep near his bed by order of state fire officials who say the mansion is a charming firetrap...