Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 6,000 doctors who have fled from Hitler's Europe to the U.S., 3.500 have been licensed to practice. A few are eminent research men like the University of Chicago's Rudolf Schindler, University of Pennsylvania's Fritz Lewy, Bacteriologist Ernest Witebsky of Buffalo. But most have forsaken their specialties to become hard-working general practitioners-often in doctorless farming communities...
With these words Britain's Laborite M.P. Aneurin Bevan (not to be confused with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin) last week went to the defense of freedom of the press in Britain. In the same debate in the House of Commons many another pungent word was spoken, for the fact was-and Britain was awakening to it-that wartime freedom of the press in the English-speaking world was now actually, openly and seriously threatened...
Brain of the C.P. is a vast octagonal room where the Chiefs of Staff and their top officers meet. Around a great table sit General Marshall, Field Marshal Sir John Dill. Admirals Ernest King and Sir Charles Little, Lieut. General "Hap" Arnold of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Air Marshal Arthur Travers Harris of the R.A.F., Chinese, Dutch and Australian representatives. There also sits pallid Harry Hopkins, all-powerful Chairman of the Munitions Assignment Board, who has an office in the building...
...last week clever George Viereck found himself on trial in Washington for not telling his children's Government all about his work for his Fatherland. Witnesses testified that bespectacled, thick-lipped George Viereck had helped write speeches for Congressmen (including Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen), had mailed them throughout the nation in franked envelopes furnished by Congress man Ham Fish's secretary, George Hill (TIME...
...Chief of Naval Operations (since 1939) and sent him off to London. There, with his four-star rank, he will command U.S. Naval forces operating in European waters (almost none). The change gave Stark's operations functions to boot-tough, 63-year-old Admiral Ernest Joseph King...