Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ministry of Transport and had suspected that he did not have enough pep to keep things humming in the newly created Ministry of Supply. Largely because of these suspicions they demanded-and got-a secret session of Parliament in December. Then late in January Laborite M. P. Ernest . Thurtle rose publicly in the House and used some very interesting language. He had found the Supply Ministry peppered with favoritism, if not graft. Scotland Yard got busy, the War Office began investigating and by last week Great Britain had a Government scandal on its hands unequaled since Old Jim Thomas...
...November 1937 Ernest Hemingway finished a play about the Spanish Civil War. At that time the Spanish war was big news, and Hemingway was in Madrid covering it. Most obvious question about Hemingway's The Fifth Column was: Who would be the lucky Broadway producer...
...monumental study of the big 26 prepared by SEC Economist Ernest J. Howe had showed that the big 26 own 11.6% of the Federal debt, hold better than a tenth of the mortgage on U. S. private industry, 17.4% of the mortgage on U. S. railroads (TIME, Feb. 26). It also showed that they had been more astute in investments than any other big financial group, grounded the fair conclusion that policyholders had suffered less in depression than bank depositors, brokers' customers, stockholders of investment trusts. Toward the close of the hearing last fortnight, SEC's grey-haired...
Kilpatrick scholarships to Samuel Atlas, Jack Fernbach, Ernest H. Filellow, Edward C. Freutel, Jr., Joseph P. Healey, Bruce A. Hecker, George M. Heinitsh, Jr., Walter L. Hiersteiner, Leonard E. Kust, Bernard Lisman, Leon M. Robinson, Leonard S. Siegel, William F. Smith, William A. Centner, Conrad A. Pearson, and Irving Reissing...
...Read in the Washington Post an article by his biographer, handsome Ernest K. Lindley, quoting point-blank un-Rooseveltian answers to point-blank political questions by a Democratic stalwart (supposedly South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes), who was fed to the gums with the Term III mystery. Mr. Roosevelt was interested to read that he had said flatly: he would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would...