Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftist Spain last week the regular staff correspondents and Novelist Ernest Hemingway were looking for survivors of the 450 Abies & Georgies who for a whole gallant day held a hilltop near Gandesa against the sweeping offensive of the Spanish Rightists (see above). About 150 were said to have escaped Death. After finding eight, Mr. Hemingway wrote: "When we saw them at noon they were barefooted and had just been given clothes. They had been naked since they had crossed the Ebro River at daylight. The Ebro, they said, was a fast-flowing, very cold river, and six others...
...Americana." Prizewinners in the past have included Carl Sandburg, Harriet Monroe, Vincent Sheean, some 16 other Midwesterners. Professional literary critics have no say in Friends of American Writers' selections. For its 1937 award of $1.000, the club's committee of 21 considered but passed over books by Ernest Hemingway, Dorothea Brande, Louis Bromfield, chose 30-year-old William Maxwell's They Came Like Swallows (TIME...
...Peekskill, N. Y., A., Cornell '34; Arthur H. Robertson, of London, England, B.C.L. Oxford '37 a candidate for LL.M. Harvard this June; Melvin Cohen, of Chicago, Il., a candidate for J.D. this June at the University of Chicago; Bertha H. Putnam, formerly Professor at Mt. Holyoke College; Ernest E. Clulow Jr., of Tulsa, Okla., a candidate for LL.B. this June at George Washington University; Donald W. Smith, of Atlanta, Ga., LL.B. Harvard '37, a candidate for LL.M. Harvard this June; Orlando J. Bowman, of Salt Lake City, Utah, LL.B. University of Utah '34; Howard L. Burns, of Greenwood...
...year. This might mean a Government outlay of as much as $465,000,000, would presumably be produced by RFC. John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads nodded in approval. So did his committee of presidents: Frederick Ely Williamson of the New York Central, Ernest Eden Norris of the Southern, Samuel Thomas Bledsoe of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa...
Last year His Eminence Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Primate of Belgium, ordered Belgian Catholics to vote against the Rexist (Fascist) Party of Lé Degrelle on (TIME, April 19). Recently Cardinal van Roey wrote his clergy explaining that such orders of the hierarchy, even entering as they do the political sphere, are binding upon the faithful from the moment they are issued. The controversy which followed Cardinal van Roey's letter became so heated that ...he submitted his views to the Pope. From Pius XI the Cardinal last week received assurance that his teachings are completely in line...