Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peaceful Hands. These were some of the reasons-along with constant research by Navy and civilian scientists into new weapons-why the fleets of Admiral Ernest J. King are able to dominate two oceans. There was another reason to which Forrestal paid his respects: "The attitude of the men who have fought and who are still fighting our battles on the sea. . . . No man can stand in the presence of these young men on the eve of battle without a deep humility...
MANPOWER Relaxed Good news from the battlefronts flooded Washington like spring sunshine. General George Marshall and Admiral Ernest King were away overseas. The Senate, pondering a manpower draft, listened to objectors (the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, railway labor, etc.), thought of ways of watering down the bill which the House had passed. Last week the Senate, leaving the bill tucked away in the Military Affairs Committee, put its feet up and relaxed...
...None. The Lord of Diamonds is Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers and Diamond Corp. (which together own Diamond Trading Co.), and understudy of the late Empire-building Cecil Rhodes. Now living on his spacious ranch outside Johannesburg, Sir Ernest makes only occasional visits to the little grey building in London from which the cartel rules...
Then, early last year, everything happened at once. She sang at Town Hall; the Met rushed over with a contract. Hollywood's Gregory Ratoff began looking for what he called a touch of "class" for his cinema biography of Composer Ernest R. Ball; two weeks later, Thebom was in Hollywood singing Mother Machree and Dear Little Boy of Mine. The cameras caught her twice, briefly, but she added the necessary class to the movie called Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
...elections of officers for the spring term Tuesday night, the Harvard Liberal Union chose Ernest Left '47 of Adams House as president, and Thomas H. Canifield '48 as vice-president. Eli J. Sagan '48 of Lowell and Kenneth J. Coffield '48 of Adams were picked as treasurer and secretary, respectively, while Edward M. Davidson of Adams won the position of member-at-large...