Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dramatis Personae. This was a conference such as history had never seen. The President, with debonair disregard for proverbs about eggs in a single basket, took along Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall; COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King; Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General...
...Political Mistake." Not since Franklin Roosevelt's nomination of Hugo Black to the Supreme Court in 1937 had there been such volatile discussion over an appointment, such throwing of epithets. Even Ed Flynn's stanch defenders shook their heads. Said New Deal Columnist Ernest...
Tonight in New Lecture Hall the Film Society will present the second in a series of memorable motion pictures. This evening "Spanish Earth," a picture depicting life in Spain during the civil war, will be shown. The commentary is given by Ernest Hemingway...
...rebuffed. Its leader, brilliant General Hsiung Shih-fei, had been assured, a place at the tables where United Nations high strategy is made. He presented his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt, met the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King. He set up headquarters in a modest brick house on Embassy Row, covered its walls with maps, got ready to proffer his precious information on the war in the East...
...went to dinner with Emerson, Lowell, Dana and others at the Saturday Club in Boston sat down one evening with a new novel The Sun Also Rises, by a new author, Ernest Hemingway. Wrote he to the friend who had sent the book, Owen Wister...