Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decree threw the steel industry into an uproar of protest. But the uproar was nothing compared with the indignation aroused when Steel Tycoon Ernest Tener Weir lined himself up on Henderson's side this week. Figuring the wage increase his National Steel precipitated earlier this month would cost the industry not more than $135,000,000, he termed the amount "insignificant" compared with Government defense spending. Said he: "There are no facts available today on which ... to determine the necessity of a price change now. ... It won't hurt the industry to take three months to produce facts...
Unfortunately for the Hearst strategy, The Free Company, a non-commercial series of democratic propaganda plays by people like Maxwell Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and William Saroyan, operates under what is virtually a Government charter. The Company's chairman, distinguished Author James Boyd (Drums, Marching On), pointed out that he is a dollar-a-year man with the Department of Justice, had shaped up The Free Company on official advice from his good friend Solicitor General Francis Biddle...
Into a Hudson's Bay Co. Post where Great Whale River empties into the eastern waters of the Bay had trekked Trapper Ernest Riddell, the only white man on the Belcher Islands. To get there he had walked 60 miles over the ice to the main land...
Today Reeves Lewenthal's Associated American Artists' Galleries has a roster of 43 U.S. artists, including such top-flighters as Thomas Benton, Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, Georges Schreiber, Max Weber, Adolf Dehn, Ernest Fiene, Arnold Blanch, Raphael Soyer, sells everything from $2 Christmas cards to $12,000 paintings. Its staff of 43 clerical workers sends out some 3,000,000 pieces of mail a year, helps handle the throng of artists (as many as 80 a week) who want a place on Lewenthal's roster...
First major product whose price was dumped in Leon Henderson's lap was steel industry's biggest raw material and key to the whole U.S. price structure (see above). Last week C.I.O. and C.I.O 's archenemy, Ernest Tener Weir, combined to make many a steel producer talk about upping his price tags...