Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government swiftly set up a court of inquiry to consider the busmen's claims. Chief spokesman for the busmen was raucous Ernest Bevin, general secretary of London's Transport & General Workers' Union and one of Britain's most powerful Labor chiefs. Secretary Bevin had a double job on his hands: he had to get the best possible terms for the striking busmen and at the same time prevent the strike spreading to the subways and trams...
With Cecil Rhodes looking on approvingly from a portrait on the wall, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, cool, cultivated chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., reported on the state of the world's diamond-mining industry one day last week in the company's famed board room in Kimberley, South Africa. Occasion was the 49th annual meeting of the company which, for all practical purposes, is the world's diamond industry. Founded by the young imperialist who established the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, originally chartered with powers not only to engage in commercial exploitation but also to raise armies...
...judging committee, which will select one of the group to deliver the oration on Class day is composed of Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr., George W. Blackwood, William B. Gavin Jr., Leo A. Ecker, George S. Ford, Ernest A. Gray Jr., and William H. Schmidt...
...plan set up in Leverett House members of the House committee must stand for reelection in their Junior year, and at the last election Barnes and William H. Wright '38 were reelected. Two other Juniors were also elected for the first time. They are John C. Harkness '38 and Ernest D. Hazelton '38. Robert M. Coquillette '39 was the sole Sophomore added to the committee...
Less than two weeks are left now in which prospective rowing essayists can complete their articles on last year's crew season for the $25 prize offered by Ernest E. Smith '02. They...