Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Mayor McNair absent, the trustees proceeded to elect, as president of Carnegie Tech, Dean Robert Ernest Doherty of the Yale Engineering School. Howled the Mayor: "I wanted to vote for Dean Wright.* This fellow they've elected -I hear he's a Communist. He's been associated with Steinmetz and they're all Communists...
...Citizen Ellwood M. Rabenold, Jr. '37His Wife Alfred R. Brenholts '33Ralph Edward H. Riddle '37Venturemed James A. E. Wood '37Luce Ernest D. Haseltine, Jr. '33Jasper Robert G. Reed '36Merrythought Henry Lloyd '37Mrs. Merrythought Raymond N. Svoboda '36Michael Thomas C. Hunt '36Tim Willard H. Griffin '37George Mark H. Cornell '37Humphrey William H. Jeffrey, Jr. '36Host Robert L. Scott '38Princess Philo F. Willets '36Tapster Howard H. Bristol '38Barber T. Walter Hardy '37Boy John T. Dunton...
Chosen from among New Orleans debutantes to be Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was slim, brown-eyed Cora Stanton ("Coco") Jahncke, daughter of Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, great-granddaughter of Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora...
...millions to British investors (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935). The "Pepper King," an Armenian-born British subject named Garabed Bishirgian, had been accused of issuing a securities prospectus which he "knew to be false in a material particular." Aiding & abetting this crime was the charge against John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson, one time Calcutta jute dealer who changed his name from von Ernsthausen before he became the world's undisputed "Tin King." Third defendant was a Howeson hireling...
...Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. Bishop Robert Emmet Gribbin of western North Carolina was the gospeler; Suffragan Bishop Charles Kendall Gilbert of New York, the Epistler. Bishop Paul Matthews of New Jersey and Suffragan Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd of New York presented the candidate for consecration. Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island preached the sermon...