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Word: ernest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the names of two others, Bacteriologist Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters) and Novelist Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms) were accounted as working editors. But de Kruif had plenty on his hands helping Franklin Roosevelt fight poliomyelitis, and Hemingway spent almost all of Ken's, eleven months' gestation visiting the war in Spain. Home from Spain and somewhat alarmed when friends pointed out to him that a Manhattan gossip sheetster had called Ken a "liberal-phoney," Hemingway asked Publisher Smart to explain in the first issue (on a page with Hemingway's story about Italian battalions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Insiders | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Novelist Ernest Hemingway, refereeing a Negro prizefight at Key West, Fla. was counting out one of the fighters when a Negro second threw in a towel. Referee Hemingway threw it out. The second jumped into the ring, swung at the referee. Mr. Hemingway gave him a left jab to the chin, twisted his ear. Said Referee Hemingway, "He must have lost his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Ernest Angell, for two years administrator of the Securities & Exchange Commission's New York office, last week resigned to return to private practice. In so doing, he was following a well-established precedent which has given SEC about the highest rate of personnel turnover in the Government. Reasons for this are twofold: 1) though SEC is full of career men, only a few top-of-the-heap jobs pay an adequate salary; 2) SEC is also full of bright young lawyers who are glad to starve for a year or two in order to get an insight into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...White House, Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan of the Tennessee Valley Authority stood up to Franklin Roosevelt as few men have dared to do in years. Meanwhile, TVA's plan to purchase a Commonwealth & Southern subsidiary progressed rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...succeed resigned Joseph A. Broderick in the longest (14 years) term on the Federal Reserve Board, Franklin Roosevelt nominated bright-eyed Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper, whose job it was to ride herd on the riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington (TIME, Feb. 14). Six years out of Amherst, in 1912 Ernest Draper became president of American Creosoting Co., in 1920 shifted to vice president of Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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