Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found a covey of frozen quail. The State regulation: No game to be kept after the hunting season, already closed two months. The penalty: $1.000 fine and twelve months on the chain-gang. The culprits: Clark Howell Jr., business manager of Atlanta's Constitution, Regent of Georgia University; Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola; Ryburn Clay, Ronald Ransom, F. W. Blalockt president, executive vice president & vice president of Atlanta's Fulton National; Robert F. Maddox, director of Atlanta's First National. The Game & Fish Commissioner did his duty, arrested them...
...Courier-Journal's letter column there appeared last week a communication which roundly flayed the State Legislature, with the intimation that Speaker Woodfin Ernest Rogers Sr. was accepting bribes. The writer signed him self "One Who Believes in Honest Gov ernment, a member of the House of Representatives." Said he: "Who tells the Speaker what bills to be killed? . . . Someone behind the screen is pulling the strings." Coming, as it appeared, from inside the Capitol at Frankfort, the letter stung the Legislature in a tender spot. A committee formed to investigate lobbying wired the Courier-Journal for the name...
...twin-engined bomber with a crew of three and the southbound mail, landed at Daytona Beach, Fla. It was five hours late, and fuel in the right wing tank was running low. When it took off again Private Ernest Bair Sell was in the middle cockpit, pumping fuel by hand. At 500 ft. both engines quit. The plane plumped into a cypress swamp. Private Sell's head was mortally smashed...
...dipped into his brown canvas sack, passed out a paper package no bigger than a dornick. He touched his cap, ambled out again into Charter House Street. Because the package was addressed personally to Louis Oppenheimer, brother of The Diamond Corp.'s potent Board Chairman Sir Ernest, the clerk took it unopened to his office. Mr. Oppenheimer unwrapped it, took one long awe-struck look, hastily popped box, paper and contents into the safe...
Thus last week was delivered the world's fourth biggest diamond, the Jonkers, found by a poor South African prospector in January and immediately sold to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer for $312,000 (TIME, Jan.29...