Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amherst College resigned last January to become professor of Latin & Greek at Harvard (TIME, Jan. 25). An earnest, retiring pundit, steeped in the classics, he is little known to his students, resembles greatly Amherst's Trustee Calvin Coolidge. Who would succeed him? Students planned to petition for Headmaster Alfred Ernest Stearns of Phillips Academy, Andover, but campus newspapers spiked the idea. There was idle talk that Trustee Coolidge, often seen about the campus, might take the post. Neither of these was elected last week. Amherst's eleventh president is to be Stanley King, 48, retired Boston lawyer and businessman, chairman...
...information "spells" French-like. The Prince's name is "Asfa Wassan" in English. He is 16, speaks English (likely better than any English prince speaks Amharic). American quite fluently, French better, interested in many things other than bicycles, and is quite familiar with the use of knife & fork. ERNEST WORK...
...twin daughters of Contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty Homer and Composer Sidney Homer; and Robert Warner, son of the late president of Tennessee Eastern Electric Co., brother of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Edward Pearson Warner. The bride's eldest sister is the wife of Rev. Ernest Van Rensselaer Stires. eldest son of Bishop Stires of Long Island...
Divorced, Arthur McKinne Stires, Manhattan architect, third son of Episcopal Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island; by Catherine Wilcox Stires, Southern socialite; in Reno. On a cross-complaint to Architect Stire's suit alleging "extreme cruelty," Mrs. Stires charged that for a year her husband had provided "nothing by way of food, shelter or clothing...
...attempt to control competition, the Oklahoma Legislature provided that the manufacture of ice was a public utility and that ice producers must obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the State Corporation Commission. New State Ice Co. of Oklahoma City complied with this statute. When one Ernest A. Liebeman started to put up an ice plant without a certificate, New State Ice Co. went into Federal Court for relief. On appeal, six justices of the Supreme Court ruled that the Oklahoma statute violated the "due process" clause because it attempted arbitrarily to deprive Iceman Liebeman of his constitutional "liberty...