Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above this caption and under a headline GET LIFE IN URSCHEL KIDNAPPING the sedate, careful Indianapolis News last week printed a photograph of five men whose solemn expressions supplied the only possible excuse for mistaking them for convicted kidnappers. They were Steel Tycoons Myron C. Taylor. George M. Laughlin, Ernest T. Weir, Eugene G. Grace and Lawyer Nathan L. Miller, representing the American Iron & Steel Institute. The scene was not Oklahoma City but the steps of the White House, where the five had been photographed after a conference with the President...
...hours before the game, and then usher for the sheer pleasure of serving You Diminutive Highness? Of course we come to see the game! Only that inducement could make us submit to the degradations of personal dignity which we undergo at the hands of your embryo top-sergeants! Ernest Fasano...
...Washington, But the miners si ill stayed out and the President's next move was to summon a committee of captive mineowners to the White House. To U. S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor, Bethlehem's Eugene G. Grace, National's Ernest T. Weir and Jones & Laughlin's George Laughlin Jr. was presented an eight-point program, written in the President's own hand and scrutinized by General Johnson, which provided for a meeting between captive operators and union representatives. "Failing in agreement on any point . . . the President will pass on the questions involved...
After a picnic luncheon at Rehobeth the pilgrims proceeded to Makemie Park where Southern Moderator Ernest Thompson extolled Pioneer Makemie. "with the care of all the churches on his shoulders," before a statue of him erected 25 years ago. Doubling back to look at churches at Pokomoke City and Snow Hill, the Presbyterians dined at Salisbury, listened to speeches by Missions Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer and onetime Northern Moderator Lewis Seymour Mudge who said God's word to the church is: "Now march, and lead America that America may become wholly Christian for America's sake...
...color. Even more inviting than the handsome format of Esquire was its table of contents, in which each item had been selected not for artistic or literary merit but on the criterion of "an especial appeal for men." The first issue contained an article on marlin fishing by Ernest Hemingway; an article on Burlesque, called "I Am Dying, Little Egypt," by Gilbert Seldes; an interview with Nicholas Murray Butler by Artist Samuel Johnson-Woolf. Charles Hanson Towne had a piece about his favorite subject, "The Lost Art of Ordering" (meals); Ring Lardner Jr. wrote solemnly about undergraduate guzzling at Princeton...