Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's leaders that Winant had been sent; it was to them that he plugged away at his theme of a democratic post-war world. He had long talks with Winston Churchill; met Anthony Eden several times a week; consulted labor leader Ernest Bevin; became fast friends with such Britons as Author-Professor Harold J. Laski, Sir Stafford Cripps, Press Lords Camrose and Kemsley, the WVS's Dowager Marchioness of Reading, one of England's most influential women...
...Ernest Thompson Seton, 81-year-old nature writer, suffered cuts on the head when the car his wife was driving smashed into another in Philadelphia...
...45th birthday last week, zestful, movie-handsome Ernest Robert Breech got the grandest birthday present of his life: the presidency of crucial Bendix Aviation Corp., a 19%-controlled General Motors affiliate. To take the job, Breech quit as G.M. vice president in charge of household appliances and aviation. At Bendix, Founder Vincent Bendix, 60, moved upstairs to board chairman...
...Viereck then instructed him to mail out, under frank of Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen, copies of an isolationist speech Lundeen made in the Senate...
Other members of the War Cabinet: Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, Lord President of the Council Sir John Anderson (a high Tory with whom Sir Stafford Cripps may be expected to tangle), Laborite Clement Attlee, upped from Lord Privy Seal to Deputy Prime Minister & Dominions Secretary...