Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ernest Kanzler, onetime Ford production chief, whom Donald Nelson appointed to see to it that every auto plant in Detroit is geared to war production, last week held his first press conference. It was unexciting. Said Mr. Kanzler: "I am here only to serve as the catalyst"-which meant, said hard-boiled newspapermen, that he would be the gadfly to spur dunderheaded laggards into speedup. Much of the U.S. public had expected Kanzler to announce resoundingly that the automobile industry would forthwith be converted to defense. But Detroit knew that the industry was already converted...
Britain's spindling Army commander, Lieut. General Arthur Ernest Percival, mindful of the hazard of trying to defend southern Johore with no avenue of escape but the Causeway, had decided to run for it, to get across the Causeway before Japanese bombers blew...
...first time ever the U.S. auto industry has a tsar: broad-shouldered, 6-ft., Ernest Carlton Kanzler, high-voltage president-on-leave of car-financing Universal Credit Corp. The scepter was handed to him by War Boss Don Nelson, and with it went the huge job of converting the auto industry to 100% war work...
Both had their origin in seeds exposed to X-rays in 1933 by Genetecist Ernest Brown Babcock of the University of California. The X-rays ionized-or "electrified"-the seeds' nuclei, kneading their chromosomes into unusual patterns which produced the two desirably abnormal plants* (as well as a number of other undesirably abnormal freaks, grotesques and runts...
...Roger Baldwin '05 of the Civil Liberties League, and Sumner Welles '13. From education, Charles Beard and Robert Morss Lovett, neither of whom has ever received such an award because they have insisted too strongly on what they felt was truth. From abroad John Maynard Keynes, Harold Laski, or Ernest Bevin, of whom with their brilliance, achievement, and human leadership would be far worthier than last year's choice of Tory Lord Halifax. From America young Walter Reuther, who has pointed a new path in labor-capital relations, or the more established leaders of labor such as David Dubinski...