Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find a single man who would have the confidence both of Henry Ford and Roland Jay Thomas of the United Auto Workers? Would a labor man or a management man be tsar of defense? Only a couple of days before, Britain's Minister of Labor and National Service, Ernest Bevin, had been put in charge of all war production. It might happen here...
...landlubber it has long seemed odd that, with a war going on in Europe, the Atlantic is policed only by a U. S. Naval Squadron, incongruously called the Atlantic Patrol Force. After Feb. 1 that Patrol Force will be the Atlantic Fleet. Its present commander, frosty-eyed Rear Admiral Ernest Joseph King (who is also a naval aviator) will take his orders direct from Chief of Naval Operations Harold Raynsford Stark in Washington. King can logically expect soon to get four-star rank...
...note, such as philosopher William Ernest Hocking '01 have even stood up to President Conant, let alone cussed the Kluxers. . . . And the boys are taking bets on what will happen...
...Stevens, "World's Largest Hotel." Built in 1927, the Stevens has 3,000 rooms (one man could spend eight years in it without twice sleeping in the same room), 1,500 employes, 40 miles of carpets. Overbuilt and overcapitalized (cost: $28,000,000) by its promoters, Ernest J. and Raymond W. Stevens, the Stevens began to totter in the first tremors of 1929. Panicky, the Stevens brothers began sluicing funds from their father's insurance company, Illinois Life. But this was just a bag of peanuts to Jumbo, and in 1932 the Stevens and Illinois Life were both...
Under the pavement of bomb-battered St. Paul's Cathedral this week, the skull & bones of ironic John Donne might have leaned backward with a lipless grin. After some 300 years, Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (whose title and magnificent motto are by John Donne), had made Preacher-Poet Donne a bestseller. U. S. customers could not buy a volume of Donne's works for love or money...