Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minnesota's young Governor Stassen has a streak that his critics call stubbornness and that his friends call a farsighted awareness of the new needs of a new time. Last week the Governor demonstrated this streak. To the post of the late Senator Ernest Lundeen he appointed-over the protests of Republican politicians -tall, lean, black-haired young Joseph Ball, who has been a newspaperman for 13 of his 34 years...
This truth was uppermost in the minds of 650 representatives of 5,000,000 British organized workers when they gathered last week in Southport's hoary Town Hall for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (T. U. C.). Keynote speaker was horny-handed, dynamic Ernest Bevin, who since 1910 has slugged and plugged for organized labor, is now Minister of Labor. "The British labor movement came to the rescue of this nation and the Commonwealth at the blackest hour of its history," he shouted, assailing Toryism with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power...
...British masses, plus a very large and rapidly increasing proportion of the middle and upper classes, were convinced that they did not want the Britain of the future to be governed by the big-business-aristocratic school of politicians. They were turning with growing confidence to people like Ernest Bevin, mentioned as "the Joshua who will take over if and when better times come...
...Scramble, a free-for-all barred from most rodeos as too dangerous. In this race, riders mounted on wild bulls, cows and broncs (some saddled, some bareback) are let loose simultaneously, bucking and bumping into one another in their crazy dash to the finish line. Winner last week was Ernest Myers, a Beaumont robber...
...WHOM THE BELL TOLLS-Ernest Hemingway-Scrlbner...