Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thanks." grinned back TVA Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan. "I'm just exercising...
...past 15 years have included two by Finland's great bald Jean Sibelius, a half-dozen by such talented Russians as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff and Tykon Krennikov . Conductor Goossens' entry for the honor was the Symphony in G Minor of reticent, little-known British Composer Ernest John Moeran. Premiered before a stuffy audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Moeran's opus drew pleased applause but no hosannas. Conductor Goossens' pronouncement has been only a cackle. But if Composer Moeran's symphony turned out to be less than a golden egg it was nevertheless...
...says, by "talking about it all the time." Little known in Spain until 1927, when he returned to Madrid after two years in Florence, he gradually became recognized as one of the finest artists of the people since Goya. While he was in prison for his Socialism in 1931, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passes got him his first one-man show in the U. S. In July 1936, he finished his most ambitious mural, eleven panels containing 140 life-size figures, for Madrid's monument to the founder of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias. A few nights later Painter...
...three days. His expulsion was countermanded but he would not stay. Marcel W. Fodor, famed Manchester Guardian and Chicago Daily News correspondent who supplied John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson with much of their Hitler-baiting background, thought it best for his health to flee Austria. Acme's Photographer Ernest Kleinberg, a Polish Jew, was taken into "protective custody." By week's end transfer of several foreign news service bureaus to suppression-free Prague, Budapest and other Central European capitals was under...
...Harry S. Truman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Chairman Clarence Frederick Lea of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee. President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, President Henry Bruere of Manhattan's Bowery Savings Bank, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Draper, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones, SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas and Farm Security Administrator Will W. Alexander. After these 14 worthies had put their heads together with President Roosevelt, he informed a press conference that the group would meet again in a few days, that the major topic had been...