Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Algiers. His past includes leadership of the French Black Sea Fleet Mutiny in 1919, a consequent death sentence (later reprieved), a stormy career in the French Chamber of Deputies, a key command in the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, and a scorching place in the pages of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Of Marty in Spain, Author Hemingway wrote: "One of France's great modern revolutionary leaders . . . a large man, old and heavy . . . [who had] become with time, disappointment, bitterness both domestic and political, and thwarted ambition . . . dangerous. . . . His face looked as though...
...major item in a minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into...
...ERNEST DUDLEY CHASE Boston...
When Parasitologist Ernest Carroll Faust took over Tulane's Tropical Medicine Department in 1938, it consisted of himself and two assistants. In 1941 the Rockefeller Foundation, mindful of the epidemic threats of global war, gave it $200,000. With this money and contributions from the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine, Inc., Eli Lilly Co. et al., a full-size school is now in the making...
...busy day for King George VI. In rapid succession he received Field Marshal Smuts, the new Portuguese Ambassador, Ernest Bevin, Sir Alexander Cadogan (pronounced Ka-dug´-gan). But one of the longest audiences of the day was reserved for the sharp-eyed, thin-lipped commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, Texas-born Ira Clarence Eaker...