Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as sporting Major Oliver Stanley, younger son of King George's sporting friend the Earl of Derby, remained Minister of Labor there was no interference with this strange monopoly. The new Minister of Labor is bourgeois, Bible-quoting Ernest ("Bashan") Brown, the loudest and fastest talker in the House of Commons. Very quietly last week good Mr. Brown did his duty as he saw it. Grosvenor House and Dorchester House were given two weeks to get rid of their 26 U. S. dancing girls, and a Minister of Labor spokesman explained nothing by frostily explaining: "It has been...
...Brewster, he said, some two years ago at the Manhattan apartment of Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening), Director of the Interior Department's Division of Territories & Island Possessions. As editor-publisher of the Portland, Me. Evening News from 1927 to 1932, Dr. Gruening had been a warm friend & ally of Ralph Brewster in his fight on the Insulls. Mr. Corcoran was roundly assured that Mr. Brewster was one man above all others who could be relied upon to fight the power interests. On the President's orders, went on Witness Corcoran, he helped draft the Wheeler-Rayburn Utility...
Down beside President Roosevelt's desk last week sat Arthur Ernest Morgan, teacherish head of Tennessee Valley Authority, to arrange an exchange of personal favors. Dr. Morgan just wanted to be sure that the President would not stand for the constrictive changes which the House Military Affairs Committee made in his TV Amendments. Mr. Roosevelt just wanted to ask whether Dr. Morgan would take care of 18-year-old Son John Roosevelt for the summer, give him an unpaid job doing TVA "field surveys." They had no disagreement about obliging each other...
...drawled Ernest Elmer Baker. "What's happened to John Dillinger...
...second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow down to Minsk, few miles from the Polish border. Since September 1934 they had been holding a strange man there. He could speak no Russian but they had finally decided that he must be an American. Sure enough, it was Ernest Elmer Baker, dressed up in an old Red Army uniform. He had worked his way to Rotterdam, jumped ship with $10 in his pocket, started to walk to Russia. He had no passport because to get one he would have had to swear an oath, which his religion forbade. Time...