Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Makings. The facts that went into the making of this issue were fairly simple. With the coming of the Blue Eagle, plant elections were indicated at Ernest Tener Weir's steel mills at Steubenville, Ohio, Clarksburg and Weirton, W. Va. At the last minute the old National Labor Board issued a new set of election rules which Mr. Weir rejected. Thereupon in December 1933 he held an election of his own which resulted in a thumping victory for Weirton Steel's company union. Disgruntled leaders of Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, an American Federation of Labor affiliate...
...Warfield, she was named Wallis after her father who died when she was three. She divorced her first husband who is today Commander E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U. S. N. Since 1926, when she married her present husband, Ernest Simpson (Harvard '19), Mrs. Simpson has resided sumptuously in London, lately at No. 5 Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square. Though she was in the U. S. for swank turf events such as the Pimlico in 1934, her Baltimore relatives sniff: "We are completely out of touch." Her late uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was for years president of Seaboard Air Line Railway...
...fame against the stilted classicism of academic painting in the early 1900's. Their particular and private gods were Edouard Manet, Velasquez and Goya. Referred to as "The Ashcan School" by outraged critics, "The Eight" were: Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William J. Glackens, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast and Everett Shinn. They were men of vivid personality and all lived to attain considerable success of one sort or another...
Thus last week Editors George Jean Nathan, Ernest Boyd, Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell & Eugene O'Neill availed themselves of the "out" they had wisely prepared in the first issue of The American Spectator, literary and critical review (TIME, Oct. 31, 1932). The magazine, resembling a monthly newspaper, had made a modest success. Circulation (claimed) reached 30,000-about 10,000 more than was needed to break even. Advertising income was fairly good. All told, the project cleared about $70 a year for each of the editors, which was more than they had expected but not enough to anchor...
...Ernest Newman started out to be an Indian Civil Servant and ended up by being Britain's foremost musical critic. When this London musicologist publishes a new biography, his fellow critics are inclined to accept his findings as sound, scholarly, vividly final. To his works on Gluck, Wolf, Richard Strauss, Elgar, Beethoven, Bach, Berlioz and Wagner, Ernest Newman, at 66, last week added his last word, on Franz Liszt...