Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee Valley Authority Act, as signed at the White House, specifically called for three administrators who believe heart & soul in the wisdom and feasibility of its manifold purposes. For chairman President Roosevelt promptly appointed Arthur Ernest Morgan, 55, president of Ohio's Antioch ("Work& Study") College. An engineer of much experience, Chairman Morgan has been fascinated by water and its uses since as a youngster he roved the Minnesota prairie. He wrote the Minnesota and Arkansas drainage codes, helped with those of Mississippi, Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico. He tamed the wild Miami River after it had flooded Dayton...
...Artists) exhibits a new way to smuggle Chinese houseboys into San Diego: in the stomachs of large sharks, whose mouths are propped open so that their inmates can breathe. This sordid aid to immigration is devised in I Cover the Waterfront by a grizzled old fishing captain, Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). It is discovered and reported to the authorities by a brisk and bibulous journalist (Ben Lyon) who is in love with Kirk's daughter, Julie (Claudette Colbert). The difficulties you might expect in a situation of this sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk, who shoots...
Sewing Chinese coolie's into sharks was characteristic of the cinema activities of the late Ernest Torrence who died last fortnight after an operation for gallstones (TIME, May 22). He massacred Indians in The Covered Wagon, kidnapped children in Peter Pan and; as Professor Moriarity, almost did away with Sherlock Holmes. When he was a young man, Ernest Torrence planned to be a musician. He wrote the music for a play called The Lady from Lyons, was first baritone for the Savoy Opera Company in London. His lanky 6-ft. 4-in. physique, tufted eyebrows, gargoyle nose and prickly...
...seven assistants rushed back, gibbering with indignation. Assistant Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Swiss Composer Ernest Bloch, scraped the white paint off two second-story windows to form the words: "Workers Unite," "Help! Protect Rivera M. . . ." Guards stopped her from finishing the word "Murals." By nightfall Communists began to swarm in Rockefeller Plaza, the new thoroughfare cutting through Rockefeller Center. They churned about, cheering for the man whom they had read out of their party four years ago, waving banners "Save Rivera's Painting," marching & countermarching around the RCA Building. Mounted police pranced on the outskirts, shooed them away before...
...Died. Ernest Torrence, 54, cinemactor; of complications after an operation for gallstones: in Manhattan. Born in Scotland, he began his career as a concert pianist, later sang in London comic operas and musical comedies. He entered cinema in 1922 as the villain in Tol-able David, skyrocketed to fame in the part of rangy, gangling Bill Jackson (The Covered Wagon...