Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capacity as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, it held hearings supposedly to determine whether an investigation should be made. Stuffed with diehard Isolationists-Clark of Idaho, Bone of Washington (absent because of illness), Tobey of New Hampshire, Brooks of Illinois-it had only one Administration supporter. He was Ernest McFarland, 6-ft. ex-judge of Florence, Ariz., who had won a surprise victory over Senator Ashurst...
Last week it was christened-reputedly by Admiral Ernest Joseph King, commander of the Atlantic Fleet. Admiral King's webfooted selection: the Atlantic Amphibious Force...
OHIO: Daniel J. Crowley, Jr., Bowling Green; Ernest J. Dieterich, Akron; Kenneth S. Lynn II, Shaker Heights; Melvin L. Milligan, Massillon; James W. Warwick, Toledo...
...Profanely ironic is the choice of Bishop Friedrich Franz Ernest von Bodelschwingh for the Nazi-perverted steal of TIME'S Niemöller cover. Called the "poor man's bishop," gentle, patriarchal, immensely popular Bishop von Bodelschwingh defied Hitler in June 1933, resigned as Reich Bishop of the German Evangelical Church one month after taking office. Refusing high office in the church's home missions, he helped organize (with Niemöller) the militant anti-Nazi Pastors' Emergency Federation...
They are: 1) Conservative Lord Halifax; 2) Conservative Anthony Eden; 3) Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair; 4) Conservative Sir Kingsley Wood; 5) Laborite Ernest Bevin; 6) Laborite Herbert Morrison; 7) Laborite Clement Attlee; 8) Laborite Albert Victor Alexander; 9) Conservative Lord Beaverbrook; 10) Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps; 11) Laborite Arthur Greenwood; 12) General Sir John Dill; 13) General Archibald Wavell; 14) King George...