Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Ernest Whitworth Marland, who made and lost many millions in oil, became Governor of Oklahoma. It was a cold January day when he and his young second wife moved into the Governor's Mansion in Oklahoma City...
...front door, trudged across the street to see British American Oil Co.'s No. 1 Piersol well. There they were taking oil at the rate of 500 bbl. an hour out of sand 6,000 ft. under the Executive Mansion. Even politics had at last placed Ernest Whitworth Marland on top of an oil dome...
...rarely assigning them as pastors to churches. There is an Association of Methodist Women Preachers. Last week in Chicago the Methodist female ministry received its youngest and best looking member thus far. With the approval of the Rock River Conference which was impressed with her evangelistic work, Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf ordained 23-year-old Uldine Utley, who carried a white-bound Bible and a red rose, wore a gold-collared blue gown...
...board chairman, Paul Drennan Cravath, is a director of the Juilliard School of Music, as is Cornelius N. Bliss, chairman of the Metropolian's executive committee. Now the Opera must listen to three more Juilliard men: President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music, Dean Ernest Hutchinson, Lawyer John Morris Perry. Besides there is a new "management committee" to advise Edward Johnson. Its members: John Erskine, Allen Wardwell, Cornelius Bliss and Soprano Bori. Commenting on the Metropolitan situation in general, wise old William J. Henderson of the New York Sun referred this to Manager Johnson and his assistant...
...Ernest Gray and Ray Lavietes were high scorers for the Crimson, combining to run up 15 of the team's total of 28 points. Bill Thomas, Dartmouth's forward star who was playing his first League contest, took the individual scoring honors and proved to be the mainspring of the Dartmouth attack...