Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned in England from King Edward that His Majesty was not just fooling around but was firm in his resolve to marry (TIME, Nov. 2). Scoop No. 2 is under stood to have been secured for Mr. Hearst by Miss Marion Davies in transatlantic conversation with her friend Mrs. Ernest Simpson. This scoop was the information that, while Edward VIII was firmly resolved to marry, it was a morganatic marriage which the King contemplated and not a marriage which would create a Queen. Both Scoop No. i and Scoop No. 2 were played by all Hearst papers in dignified, unequivocal...
...Eagle is as much a Brooklyn landmark as the Bridge. Founded in 1841 as the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Kings County Democrat, the paper was controlled by successive generations of the family of Isaac Van Anden until it was acquired in 1929 by Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. In its great days from 1892 till 1930, the Eagle's eyrie was a Renaissance castle on noisy Washington Street in Brooklyn's "downtown" section, a half mile from Henry Ward Beecher's old Plymouth Church on Orange Street and the "Heights," where some of the borough...
...Steelman Ernest Tener Weir, also throbbing with the spirit of reform, spoke warmly if tritely for redistribution of wealth: "Demand can be increased not only by increase in total national income, but also by distribution of the increase through the whole population. . . . Wage increases or investment returns that are paid solely through price increases are only apparent gains. ... It is probable that work on this problem will indicate that special attention should be given the low-income groups. This would have human value because these groups are most in need...
...Committee is composed of the five major sports captains, the managers of the major sports, and the president and secretary of the Minor Sports Council. John J. Colony "37, captain of the swimming team, and Ernest A. Gray '37, captain of the basketball team, were elected president and secretary of the Minor Sports Council earlier in the year...
Last month the Leonard Wood Memorial was glad to finance Leprologist Ernest Muir so that he might leave his headquarters in London for an evangelistic tour of U. S. medical centres where leprosy, the subject in which the Memorial is particularly interested, is studied. Dr. Muir, 56, spent 15 years as a medical missionary among Bengal lepers, another 15 years as a research worker in leprosy in Calcutta's School of Tropical Medicine. At present he is Medical Secretary of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association. In the U. S., Dr. Muir addressed the American Society of Tropical Medicine...