Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ERNEST HAMLIN BAKER...
...including two banks, 12 cafes, six drugstores and seven dry-goods stores, but not one of them will acknowledge to being "the Bonham general store" where Sam sits with cronies for "big-town" photographers. The general store to which the author refers, I presume, is the store owned by Ernest Parker at Ivanhoe, 15 miles north of here...
...Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, erstwhile leader of the jazz-famous Five Pennies, got some publicity in the rat-ridden little California town of Albany. The Mayor had called for a good extermination plan. In an attempt to pied-pipe the rats, Nichols started tooting his trumpet in the center of town, started marching toward the Bay. A few children and photographers were all that followed...
Westward across the Pacific from the U.S. flew tall, taut Admiral Ernest King, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet. Up from a post in the South Seas flew stocky, pugnacious Admiral William Halsey, Allied Commander in the South Pacific. At Pearl Harbor, in the chart-cluttered headquarters of white-haired, unhurried Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, a conference took place...
...England, Labor Minister Ernest Bevin reportedly told an audience of 6,000 war-worker women, after an off-the-record speech, "Don't say anything to the press. I don't trust the press." The National Union of Journalists angrily demanded a retraction...