Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirtyfour representatives of the four estates-business, labor, agriculture and education-were picked by the President to advise his $50,000,000 National Youth Administration. Among them were: Owen D. Young, aged 60; William Green, 62; Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd, 62; Bishop Francis John McConnell, 63; President Ernest Hiram Lindley of the University of Kansas, 65; Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim, 65, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66. Some youngsters also got on the committee: A. A. Berle Jr., 40; Amelia Earhart Putnam...
...clubs, theatres, and cafés, dragged out every customer who looked like a Jew, beat him bloody on tho sidewalk, and slugged any women who seemed to have been with Jews irrespective of whether they were Jewesses or not. A spectator startled by these German deeds was Midshipman Ernest Wood Jr., U. S. Navy, son of a U. S. Army chaplain. "I was standing on a café terrace when a woman was knocked down by a man," said Midshipman Wood. "Another woman protested and she too was knocked down. Then the big fellow who had done it asked...
...away the star is, parallax furnished the first dependable clue to stellar distances. Beginning in 1903, Frank Schlesinger developed such effective photographic methods of parallax measurement that now some 2,000 have been accurately determined. Elected president of the next Congress, to be held in 1938 at Stockholm, was Ernest Esclangon, 59, director of the observatories at Paris and Meudon and Professor of Astronomy at University of Paris...
Civilized entertainment. Accent on Youth should please practically every class of U. S. cinema-seers except students or graduates of Princeton University. Good shot: Marshall's butler (Ernest Cossart) perfectly executing three difficult billiard shots which are photographed with out any faking...
...Under the Stars." One night last week Peggy Wood, Marlene Dietrich, Josef von Sternberg, Jeanette MacDonald, Corinne Griffith and some 18,000 others heard Otto Klemperer play Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Al-beniz, Berlioz in the Bowl's opener. Conductors to follow during the eight-week season : Willem Mengelberg, Ernest Schelling, Bernardino Molinari, José Iturbi...