Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these real live painters: "This is the damnedest miscasting I ever saw." The cast: blond, amiable, plodding Grant Wood; dark, volatile Thomas Benton; shy, diminutive, big-eared Raphael Soyer, with the faraway, downhearted look of his old men and nudes; tweedy, sophisticated George Biddle; big, pink-faced Ernest Fiene; aristocratic James Chapin; athletic bachelor Georges Schreiber; big, gruff Portraitist Robert Philipp; dynamic Luis Quintanilla, famed Spanish-refugee fresco painter...
...seven months' purchases at the rate of the last two years. Trade authorities agreed this amount was above Italy's normal needs (200,000 tons a year), was obviously headed for her (or Germany's) war chest. Steel men recalled that National Steel Corp.'s Ernest Tener Weir, in behalf of the industry, had two weeks ago demanded that exports of U. S. scrap be limited. Such regulations need not hurt the Allies, who buy mostly finished steel and steel products, but to impose it now would be about as useful as locking a barn door...
...Commander of the First French Army in Flanders; in an auto accident while commanding his troops. Hugo Hesketh Hughes, 38, 2nd lieutenant in the Welsh Guards, seven-goal British polo star; in action in Flanders. Jacques and Jean Denain, aviator sons of former Air Minister French General Victor Leon Ernest Denain; shot down returning from air raids over Germany. Sir Henry George Alan Percy, 27, Ninth Duke of Northumberland, England's largest coal owner (1939 income: $345,000); in France...
Bliss scholarships and Blodgett scholarships to Gordon L. Chute, or Petersham Mass.; and Ernest M. Gould Jr., of Wellesley, Mass...
When World War II began, the British cartel cut the Germans out of the market, black-listed dealers who could not convince Sir Ernest's executives they would not let their purchases into the Reich. When the British held the Pan-American Clipper at Bermuda and seized U. S. ship mail at Gibraltar, one big object of their search was diamonds headed for Nazi factories. Last week U. S. industrialists might well ponder what a Hitler-dominated cartel could do to mass production...