Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada needed most last week was Ernest Lapointe. For two decades Ernest Lapointe had manipulated the strings that pull the geographical subdivisions, the racial and religious antagonisms of Canada into one nation. Last week the issue of conscription for overseas service threatened to snarl the strings as badly as it did in World War I. But the great manipulator's fingers were limp...
...Ernest Lapointe, 65 years old, worn out by diabetes and the strain of war work, lay ill in a Montreal hospital. Once he stirred from a coma, looked up into the eyes of his wife and daughter. "You all alive?" he said. "Good. So am I. We'll celebrate. Give me some water. . . ." Then he died...
Thirty-seven years ago, when he was first elected to Canada's House of Commons, Ernest Lapointe was a French Canadian small-town lawyer, 6 ft. 3 in. of gawking bumpkin. He could speak only a few words in English and knew little of parliamentary procedure. Before his frame had filled out to 240 lb., he had mastered English and political procedure as thoroughly as he learned the lesson that intolerance and bigotry in Canada are two well-banked fires forever threatening to set the Dominion ablaze...
Divorced. Ernest Tener Weir, head of National Steel Corp.; by his second wife, Aeola Dickson Siebert Weir; after 16 years of marriage; in Okeechobee...
Only regret felt for the Harvard holiday was expressed by Corporal Ernest L. Davian of Holyoke, who suggested, "They will probably rib us for weeks back at camp about 'going to Hahvuhd...