Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin Up. The Chamberlain exit put into the all-powerful War Cabinet a patient, stubborn slab of a man named Ernest ("Give 'Itler 'Ell") Bevin. As the National Government's new Minister of Labor he has so ably unmuddled his department that his hold on the popular imagination is the greatest political phenomenon of the war. Built like a beer barrel, ungrammatically eloquent Bevin wedged himself into the revised Cabinet as the apex of pyramiding trade-union strength. No mere pub gabble was the talk of Bevin as "our next Prime Minister." However, there were no signs...
Bloch: Schelomo (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor: 5 sides). In Schelomo (Hebrew for Solomon), musical Zionist Ernest Bloch rhapsodizes and wails, perhaps of worldly vanities, perhaps of breasts like roes and necks like ivory: there is no descriptive program. Cellist Feuermann plays eloquently...
This was one Roosevelt measure which Republican Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir welcomed. He even thought it overdue. Moving his never-lit cigar from mouth to desk, he glowered: "It is too bad that the Administration did not see fit to heed the repeated warnings of businessmen against the continuous, large-scale exportation of scrap. . . . Even now, since the embargo is not effective until Oct. 16, exportations can continue for more than two weeks. With scrap-steel stocks already so badly depleted, I can see no justification for the delay...
...Tulsa, Okla., Dogcatcher Ernest Roberts was suspended for "exceeding his duty" after he arrested four men and a woman for drunkenness, took them to jail in his dog wagon...
...history of New York City politics is as bumptious and cynical a saga as a combination of Damon Runyon, Ernest Hemingway, and Thorne Smith could concoct. Now that "The Little Flower" and "Reform" reign supreme, that saga of the Men of Tammany is fast becoming a glowing legend, another Homeric Age. A nostalgic reminiscence of things past is "The Great McGinty," the story of a bum who voted thirty-seven times in one election--on the right side--and became governor for his pains. As governor he went straight and had to get out of the country...