Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of world depression and unemployment, Irish finances are lush. Two months ago Finance Minister Ernest Blythe proudly announced in the Dail that the Irish budget balanced easily, that the income tax had exceeded the estimate by ?250,000 (TIME...
...John Ernest Buttery Hotson, acting Governor of Bombay Presidency, was inspecting Fergusson College at Poona when a student, one Gokhale, rushed up and fired a pistol point-blank at him. The bullet struck the metal stud of a wallet just above Sir John's heart. Sir John rushed the student, overpowered him, had him arrested, went...
...stood at 98°. Everyone was in his shirtsleeves and a frank sweat. The mahogany paint melted from the metal chairs, stained many a pair of linen trousers. On the dais which runs the width of the room sat I. C. Commissioner Balthasar Henry Meyer, presiding, flanked by Commissioners Ernest Irving Lewis and William Erwin Lee, assigned to the case. Commissioner Lee kept himself cool by waving a silk fan. Sitting in on the case unofficially was Commissioner Joseph Eastman, most liberal and conscientious member of the I. C. C. Present also by invitation were seven representatives of the State...
...Ernest Thompson Seton, literary naturalist, found a Harris's sparrow nest containing several fledglings near Great Slave Lake. The find was important because it proved that the bird builds a grass nest on the ground. But what were the eggs like? The Pennsylvanians and Canadians, in friendly competition last month, were trying to find...
...shrewd and amusing businessman is Proprietor Ernest L. Byfield of Chicago's Sherman, Ambassador, Ambassador East and Fort Dearborn hotels and the College Inn. No conventional, money-grubbing innkeeper is he but an executive with a highly developed social life, a flair for fun. When he was approached by newshawks last week on the subject of gigolos, he gave out this grave statement...