Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ernest James Stevens, genial hotel man of Chicago's hotel-&-insurance family, was arrested last week on a charge of cospiracy to defraud stricken Illinois Life Insurance Co. of ''more than $1,000,000." Last month auditors learned that the sluicing of funds from Stevens-controlled Illinois Life into Stevens-owned hotels had cost Illinois Life $12,456,409 (TIME, Jan. 23). Ernest James Stevens was director of the insurance company, his brother Raymond president, his father James William chairman. Brother Ernest had obtained passports, was going abroad with his family. Later, all three Stevens were indicted...
Maker of the muddle for clear-headed reasons was tall, scrawny-necked, gimlet-eyed Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Muddled were Philip Ernest Hill, a most successful young British financier, and Boston's Louis Kroh Liggett...
...smallish old man who used to prowl around the Loop on Sundays spotting likely real estate propositions, is head of the family and was chairman of both the insurance company and the Stevens and La Salle Hotels. Son Raymond William was president of Illinois Life. Genial, square-faced Son Ernest James is the active hotel man who now often says: "I feel as if I were a hundred...
...school. In 1903, far from the nation's richest and by no means the best, Andover got for its new headmaster an alumnus and onetime instructor. In succeeding years, under his influence, the school grew rich and great. From Nice, France last week came word that Headmaster Alfred Ernest Stearns, 61, was resigning because of ill health. Accepting regretfully the resignation, the trustees announced that Latin Instructor Charles Henry ("Charlie") Forbes, a short, chubby, popular classicist, possessor of one of the world's best Virgil libraries, would continue to serve as acting headmaster. And Andover men everywhere began...
...resignation of Alfred Ernest Stearns as headmaster of Andover, though scarcely unforeseen, will startle the large army of youth which has passed over Andover Hill in the last quarter century. For his appointment in 1903 was one of those rare and happy incidents of fate that places a man exactly where he belongs. The Puritanic austerity which was his guise and the intense human sympathy which was his self combined before youthful eyes to make inevitable that apotheosis which though often lonely, is necessary to the unity and order of a large secondary school...