Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together with Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, William Wallace Atterbury, Melvin Alvah Traylor, James Watson Gerard, sundry other tycoons and their ladies. ¶ President Hoover asked Congress to appropriate an additional $1,450,000 with which the Department of Agriculture might fight grasshoppers. ¶ Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans took Louisiana's new Democratic Senator Huey Pierce Long to the White House to meet President Hoover. Emerging from the Executive Offices, Senator Long was asked what he thought of the President. "Considering the miserable party he represents.'' said...
...Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who bought the venerable Brooklyn Eagle (once called the best "local" paper in the U. S.) three years ago and found it unprofitable, sold it again last week. First rumors were that the paper would be retrieved by the Herbert Foster Gunnison interests from whom Publisher Gannett bought it and who still hold substantial mortgages. Instead the purchaser was announced as a syndicate organized by Managing Editor Harris McCabe Crist (who was a former co-owner with the Gunnisons) and M. Preston Goodfellow, oldtime Eagle employe and technical "publisher"' of the paper under the Gannett...
...little pockets on either side. In them he kept vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano Rosa Ponselle never sings without the little silver cross she wore when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Pianist Ernest Schelling keeps in his waistcoat pocket a four-leaf clover pressed between glass. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz always has a picture of Liszt in the artists' room, Violinist Yehndi Menuhin a bronze head of Toscanini. Pianist José Iturbl goes to every concert with an apple and a clean collar. During intermission...
Whistling in the Dark. Here is a combination of facile playwrighting (by Laurence Gross & Edwards Childs Carpenter), skilled and humorous direction (by Frank Craven) and notably high high-comedy acting (by little Ernest Truex). A sort of mystery play to end all mystery plays, it relates the adventures of a detective fictioneer who unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a gang of criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals...
...Daniels, 69, Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy, publisher of the Raleigh (N.. C.) News & Ob server, when the automobile in which he was riding was forced over an embankment near Atlanta and struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck by an automobile...