Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...load of supplies to the base, bring Dr. Schmidt and his companions back. The four who will remain are Ivan Papanin, the leader, a former military commissar and leader of the fleet mutiny at Leningrad during the War, lately manager of the polar station at Franz Josef Land; Ernest Krenkel, who was radio officer with the Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930; Pyotor Shirshoff, hydro-biologist who was aboard the Chelyuskin; and Eugene Feoderoff, who has been studying magnetic waves in the Arctic for three years. They will have an immense assortment of equipment: four tons...
...195th convention in Philadelphia, then moved to Atlantic City. The Ministerium's pleasure in learning that its income had risen for the first time in six years was tempered by the realization that the rise amounted to iff per week per member. In his annual report President Ernest Philip Pfatteicher flayed much, including the "growing practice" of holding funerals in funeral parlors, which he called "a step backward from the Christian standpoint." President Pfatteicher also observed: "The Church has undoubtedly lost much of its onetime prestige in metropolitan centres in which discouraged churchmen have chosen to 'let George...
Just before he sailed home on the Normandie last week, taciturn, tweedy Sir George Ernest Schuster, chairman of the board of Lipton, Ltd., received newshawks in his suite at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and imparted to them a bit of last-minute information. Last February, said Sir George, he had become president of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., when the stock of that U. S. company had been wholly acquired by his English corporation. Why his election had not been announced before he did not explain, observed vaguely: "There never has been a time when the strengthening of economic ties...
John Eric '37, will be succeeded by Edward Barnes '38 as President. Replacing Irving Fine '37, as Vice-President is Ernest Sachs '38, while George Phillips '39 takes over the duties of Edward Barnes as Secretary. Leonard Unger '37 automatically succeeds Gardner Middlebrook '38 as Manager, as does Donald Todd '40 assume the position of John L. Dampeer '38 as librarian...
...through the broadcast of his brother's Coronation (see p. 15). Acting as unofficial press representative, the Duke's faithful U. S. friend, Herman Rogers, issued to newshawks genteel snippets of information: legally changing Mrs. Simpson's name had cost $2.50. . . . Mrs. Warfield had put aside Ernest Simpson's engagement ring for a new emerald from the Duke. ... On Coronation night there was a dinner and card party at the chateau...