Word: ernest
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Judge Nields had to do some heavy reading. Last June Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir installed a company union, modeled on that of Bethlehem Steel, in the plants of his Weirton Steel Co. at Steubenville, Ohio, Clarksburg, and Weirton, W. Va. Last September the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers (A. F. of L. affiliate) called a strike in his plants and demanded recognition from Weirton Steel. The strike was settled when the National Labor Board got Steelmaster Weir to agree that the National Labor Board should supervise a union election in his plants in December (TIME, Dec. 25). Less than...
...wife of Author-Publisher Michael Sadlier (Constable & Co.) whose writings range from a commentary and bibliography of Anthony Trollope to a monograph on the history of publishers' bindings. He changed his name from Sadler to Sadlier to avoid confusion with his equally distinguished father, Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, Master of University College, Oxford...
...late Henry Suzzalo. Able in politics as in pedagogy, he wangled generous grants from the Legislature, built up a maze of specialized colleges, upped enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000. But he made one major mistake. As virtual Governor during the fatal six-month illness of Wartime Governor Ernest Lister, he started to clean up lumber camps and trod on the toes of a lumberman named Roland Hill Hartley. In 1926 Hartley was Governor and Suzzalo found himself...
Other kudos of the fortnight: Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland) President Arthur Cutts Willard of University of Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . D.E. Columbia University (New York) Professor Emeritus Ernest William Brown of Yale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC. D. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC.D. Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York University . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. President Harold Willis Dods of Princeton . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Surrogate James Aloysius Foley of New York Country . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Economist Calvin Bryce Hoover of Duke University . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. British Economist John Maynard Keynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Russell Henry Stafford of Boston's Old South Church . . . . . . . . . . S.T.D Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) U.S. Commissioner...
President Conant was among nine men who were yesterday awarded honorary degrees by Columbia University at its 180th annual Commencement Exercises. He was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science, together with Ernest William Brown, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale...