Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bertha Stott left Detroit, went to Canada, remained there three weeks until a writ was issued for her brother Ernest in Ontario. Last week she returned and went to jail. A few hours later she was in hysterics. She had to be taken to a hospital, where police and nurses guarded her watchfully. Judge Ferguson said he might have her examined by a psychiatrist...
...nomination of presidential candidates only nine months away, G. O. Potentates have begun setting in motion the wheels of their 1932 campaign. If not now, very soon will be the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke has swung through the West bearing the message of Hooverism. Recently the Federal Farm Board sent a letter into Missouri, where a special election was to be held in the 7th Congressional district, outlining the blessings which have accrued to agrarians from the Republican Agricultural Marketing Act. Gruff, chunky...
...wings of the Church were lined up, more sharply demarcated than they had been in 50 years. Also, the reelection of Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island as presiding bishop, regarded not long ago as a fait accompli, was suddenly threatened by a faction which backed Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island. Wrote Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins in The Chronicle (official organ of the Protestant Episcopal Church League, an evangelical organization): "He [Bishop Perry] has been the least picturesque and effective of our Presiding Bishops. . . .His cope, mitre and pastoral staff aptitudes have caused dismay to some...
...story relates the adventures of a famed actress (Muriel Kirkland of Strictly Dishonorable and The Greeks Had a Word for It) who is pursued by the richest merchant in all Hungary (Ernest Glendenning) and a poor young engineer (Walter Abel). It takes four padded scenes, in which sub-characters pop in and out with the sombre precision of a cuckoo clock, and the conclusive click of a train gate to force the right pair into each other's arms...
When William Randolph Hearst needed money he offered stock to his employes and the public in a new $100,000,000 company called Hearst Consolidated Publications (TIME, June 30, 1930; Sept. 7). Last week Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett (Rochester Times-Union, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Hartford Times and 14 other papers) announced he would offer $1,000,000 preferred stock in Gannett Co., Inc. But Publisher Gannett insisted that his company did not need money. Said he: "[The company] has never had a losing year. It was making money before the depression. It has been making money since the depression...