Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even the Best People could help tony Evangelist Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman out of his latest difficulty. Plow-nosed, shark-chinned "Dr." Buchman's Oxford Group had run head on into the British Government in the person of blocky, slum-born Labor Minister Ernest Bevin...
Like a thunderstorm, the row did not last. Last week Ernest Bevin stood before the House, told it that the Group was the only religious organization that had tried to claim an exemption. When he sat down, not a voice was raised. The Government's position was accepted without a vote...
...lips of every undergraduate literatus, when newspapermen were supposed to carry copies of the Mercury in their hip pockets along with their liquor flasks, and when he himself was scorching Fundamentalists at the Scopes trial, sitting up all night with characters like Rudolph Valentino, and lalloping around Manhattan with Ernest Boyd and Jim Huneker...
Other speakers inside the Club at the annual dinner of the Club will be Dartmouth's prexy, Ernest Martin Hopkins, and Harvard Director of Athletics William J. Bingham...
...Died. Ernest Whitworth Marland, 67, onetime (1935-39) Governor of Oklahoma, who made and lost two oil fortunes; in Ponca City, Okla. As Governor he drilled oil wells on the Capitol grounds, made the State some...