Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publication, Black Star is a photographic and literary agency formed last December by Ernest Mayer, refugee German-Jewish publisher. Black Star handles such foreign writers as Emil Ludwig and Paul Claudel as well as some 50 European, Asian, African photographers. The agency's name was selected in the hope that some day it might be represented merely by a quickly identifiable symbol...
Five days prior, William Moyers went to the office of his old friend Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola Corp., held a revolver on him, forced him to call their mutual friend Thomas K. Glenn, president of Georgia Trust Co., and order him to bring $30,000 in cash to the office immediately. While he waited for the money, Moyers held Woodruff, his secretary and an office visitor at bay. When Banker Glenn arrived, Moyers pocketed the money. Banker Glenn was then forced to accompany Moyers to the street where he disappeared into a crowd of some 20,000 that...
Though neither of the following lineups is definite at this early date one of the starting fives is composed of Lewis A. McGowan '38, forward; George F. Loweman '38, forward; Captain Ernest A. Gray Jr. '37, center; Leavitt S. White '37, guard; and Lupien. The other quintet consist of Grondahl, forward; William W, Shirk '38, forward; John H. Herrick '38, center; Heckel, guard; and Arthur R. Snell '38, guard. In addition, Jacob H. Kuhn '38, Arnold 8. Liman '38, Jack L. Mason '37, and Thomas W. Stephenson '37, will se action. john L. Dampeer '38, regular last year, is laid...
...Died. Ernest Robert Graham, 68, famed, prolific Chicago architect; of high blood pressure brought on by overwork; in Chicago. Schooled by the late great Daniel H. Burnham, he collaborated in planning Chicago's 1893 Fair. In Chicago he designed or helped design the Field Museum, Union Station, Merchandise Mart ("world's largest building"), Marshall Field department store, Civic Opera and Wrigley Buildings; in Manhattan, Wanamaker's and Gimbel's stores, the Flatiron, Equitable and Chase National Bank Buildings; for Washington, the Union Station and General Post Office; California's Mount Wilson Observatory...
Bath Iron Works's 1927 rejuvenation coincided with the lushest yacht-building era in U. S. history. First big contract was a 240-ft. job for Ernest Blaney Dane of Brookline, Mass. Hiram Edward Manville's 266-ft. Hi-Esmaro was built by Bath Iron Works. So was Hugh Joseph Chisholm's 244-ft. Aras and Eldridge Reeves Johnson's 279-ft. Caroline. Biggest yacht contract Bath Iron Works ever got was for J. P. Morgan's fourth Corsair, which was launched in the dark days of 1930 amid a fusillade of anonymous letters threatening...