Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More sedately Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper and Vassar College's President Henry Noble MacCracken made speeches...
First Black Legionary of note to be arrested after the twelve "Republicans" was balloon-eared, tight-lipped Ray Ernest, Jackson State Prison guard, reputedly a "brigadier general." With four others he was accused of lashing another WPA worker, of fatally flogging a fellow prison guard who had tried to withdraw from the Legion. While newspapers painted the complicated ritual in which a Legion neophyte was asked whether he believed in a Supreme Being, could ride, shoot, drink and lie, police announced that they had raided Ernest's Jackson home, found a metal-studded whip. Mrs. Ernest, claiming to have...
Also found in Ernest's home was correspondence to Virgil Harry Effinger of Lima, Ohio. The, newshawks found, is a ponderous, big-nosed salesman with a foghorn voice who quotes extensively from the Bible, addresses everyone as "Brother." Seated in his basement office, which contains a plaster statuet of a hooded klansman and framed pictures of Paul Revere and George Washington, Effinger neither admitted nor denied that he was the Legion's commander-in-chief. The 6,000,000 members, he stoutly asserted, did not believe in violence, worked solely for the furtherance of "Americanism...
...Ernest Simpson, the former Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, Md., known to the world press as King Edward's favorite dancing partner, his companion on numerous holiday excursions...
...Ernest Simpson...