Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...initial success of the Manhattan campaign for less noise brought joy to Ernest Henry Peabody, 66, a combustion engineer. Because John D. Rockefeller Jr., a childhood friend, showed no interest, Mr. Peabody, whose business runs itself, spent $1,500 of his own money on antinoise propaganda, collected $700 from friends, hopes others will help out. He eventually got action out of the Mayor by giving a new name to an ineffectual League for Noise Abatement. The name which Mr. Peabody invented is the League for Less Noise. The old name got no results...
...named Mike Hurley and 13 friends sat down in an East Side coffeepot to a breakfast of beer and a 50-lb. tuna fish, cut in steaks, which they ate down to the tail. In the Stork Club, where celebrities and whatnots were three deep along the bar, Author Ernest Hemingway argued with Poloist Winston Guest...
...Died. Ernest P. Bicknell, 73, vice chairman of the American Red Cross, longtime director of disaster relief (San Francisco quake & fire of 1906, Sicilian quake of 1908, many a Mississippi and Ohio Valley flood, Wartime operations abroad); of heart disease; in Washington...
...smaller publisher than Hearst, and only approaching 60, is Frank Ernest Gannett. But last week he made news by announcing what shall happen after his death to his $8,000,000 kingdom of 19 newspapers, one magazine...
...Frank Ernest Gannett was born on a farm in upstate New York, peddled papers as a boy, worked his way through Cornell by newshawking in his spare time. After graduation he accompanied the first U. S. Commission to the Philippines as secretary to its president, Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, then Cornell's president later Ambassador to Germany. Back in Ithaca, Frank Gannett was by turns city editor, managing editor and business manager of the Daily News and editor of the Cornell Alumni News...