Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choose a successor to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett as Chief of its Bureau of Aeronautics. He delighted Navy airmen by brushing the list aside, naming a man who has more than 400 hours at airplane controls to his credit. Tall, spare, keen-jawed Captain Ernest J. King, 54. father of six daughters and a son, qualified as a Naval Aviator (pilot) in 1927, has since successively commanded the Scouting Fleet's Aircraft Squadrons, been assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, commanded the Hampton Roads Naval Air Station, the aircraft carrier Lexington. His appointment was doubly...
Rear Admiral William Woodward Phelps, his gold braid dulled, stood at attention. So did plump Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, and Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother, and Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's predecessor. High above them rose the knifelike prow of a 10,000-ton cruiser, her anchor ports swathed in damp bunting. The vessel did not budge. Under her steel flanks a workman hurt his ankle, was carried off. The band played "Over There." The boat still stood still. Then the band played "Anchors Aweigh." The cruiser...
President Lowell presided, and the invocation was given by William Lawrence '71, bishop of Massachusetts. The opening address was delivered by Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, whose subject was "Unity as an Educational Ideal." He was followed by W. B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, discussing "The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities...
...ERNEST K. HARTMAN...
...Colonel E. M. Hadley their president. In January, Evanston got its chapter, headed by one John A. Kappelman, insurance broker. Far from unusual in thesis or technique, the Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target one of the Methodist Church's ablest preachers. Rev. Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle, 47, social-minded leader in the Federal Council of Churches. Big and muscular, Dr. Tittle served in the Y. M. C. A. during the St. Mihiel offensive. In 1918 he went to Evanston's smart First Methodist Church, where his sermons-spoken out of the side...