Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost in the shuffle was Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, conservative Laborite who was built up in early war days as the "strong man" of the people. Offered a "new job," Ernie Bevin beamed, thinking he was to become production chief, then huffily refused the Ministry of Health...
...hunt flushed many another protege of Mrs. Roosevelt's from the thickets of OCD. One was Betty Lindley, wife of New Dealing Newshawk Ernest K. Lindley, who used to handle Mrs. Roosevelt's radio programs. Mrs. Lindley was "principal civilian participation adviser," at $5,600 a year. Another was Jonathan W. Daniels, novelist and editor-son of an editor-father. This man of letters was "director of program planning." For "operations director" the OCD named a New York social worker named Hugh Jackson, and as survey director, Mary Dublin, formerly with the Tolan Committee...
...that U.S. air, army and naval forces served under a unified command was on the North Carolina shore maneuvers last July, when Major General Holland McTyeire ("Howlin' Mad") Smith of the Marines commanded task forces of the Marines and the Army under the over-all supervision of Admiral Ernest Joseph King...
...Bell's death in 1922 his son-in-law, Plant Explorer David Fairchild, turned the flock over to Professor Ernest Ritzman of the University of New Hampshire, an expert breeder who had already developed a superior type of sheep combining the better features of fine-wooled Rambouillets and meaty Southdowns. Since Bell's sheep, for all their twins and nipples, were neither very meaty nor very fleecy, Ritzman began crossing the two unusual stocks. At last years end his work was finished, and his retirement neared, so he turned the flock over to Federal stock breeders at Middlebury...
...Dodge, all Chrysler and G.M.'s Chevrolet and Pontiac assembly lines stopped for the duration last week. Others will dribble along for another week or ten days. Chrysler figured 40,000 of its men would be temporarily idle, G.M. 120,000. But Conversion Tsar Ernest Kanzler thinks Detroit alone will have 600,000 war jobs by year...