Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seconds . . ." Finally the break came. The Allied side was going to speak. All four major networks stood by for London. Over the shortwave at last came the dry, deliberate voice of Colonel R. Ernest Dupuy, press aide to General Eisenhower: "This is Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force. The text of Communique No. 1 will be released to the press and radio of the United Nations in ten seconds...
Revolutionary? The White Paper is a basic undertaking. It attacks problems fundamental to democracies. It is not a one-man brain wave: the British Treasury and Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin helped frame it. Last week, the Daily Herald (labor) called it a "revolutionary manifesto." But if it were, it could only be such because of its new assumptions of the responsibilities of democracies. Financially, it is conservative...
...modern organists enjoy the sort of fame obtainable in most other fields of instrumental music. U.S. top rankers, be sides Weinrich, include E. Power Biggs of Harvard University; Ernest White of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Manhattan; Dr. T. Tertius Noble...
...votes to 60, his colleagues declined to discipline Bevan for attacking the Labor Party's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and his tough anti-strike regulation (TIME, May 15). Instead, the party caucus proposed to let the whole thing die in committee. Chuckled unrepentant Nye Bevan: "If the Party executive [ruling committee] can keep it quiet at the [annual] Conference they will. But it'll have to come up ... and the rank and file won't let it pass...
...task is smart coverage of invaded Europe. He has some star reporters for this crucial job: William B. Courtney and Martha Gellhorn are already in England. Soon to join them is Reporter Gellhorn's husband, who has succeeded in making literature out of war reporting, burly, newly-bearded Ernest Hemingway...