Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Useful Purpose. Of the 172 war plants in their zone, the British had dismantled all but 74. Britain's Ernest Bevin insisted (and his colleagues agreed) that the remaining 74 must be removed, too. But of the 320 surplus plants, 112 were still largely intact. It was in this category that Germany's main hope of salvage lay. Bevin had grudgingly come around to the view that further dismantling of surplus plants, more than four years after war's end, would serve no useful purpose. France's Robert Schuman hesitantly agreed. If the Allied High Commissioners...
Last week, T.U.C. leaders faced their government's key men in Sir Stafford Cripps's study in the House of Commons. Beside Cripps at his maroon-topped desk sat Ernest Bevin and Aneurin Bevan, both good union men. Ernie Bevin assumed the role in which he feels most at home: that of the table-thumping, tough-spoken bargainer. This time he was arguing for the employer's side, i.e., the government. When the T.U.C. leaders reiterated their demands, Bevin rumbled that it was up to the workers, through toil and discipline, to support their government...
...there is any rhetoric or fancy writing that puts you off at the beginning or the end," says Ernest Hemingway in his introductory puff to this novel of Italy in the '30s, "just ram through it." Hemingway is wrong in his warning about where the "rhetoric" is to be found-it comes in the middle, and in cascades-but his advice is still worth taking...
...Occupation policy was codified in Paris two weeks ago, at the invitation of Ernest Bevin, by the Foreign Ministers of France, Britain, and the U.S. Secretary of State Acheson has called the Paris talks "entirely harmonious" and says that the three Foreign Ministers reached "full agreement" on the questions discussed. But the French are skeptical of such unanimity...
Sperry's remarks followed a recent speech by Ernest C. Colwell, president of the University of Chicago, in which universities were called aloof to religion. Colwell said the attitude of college faculties was "one of indifference or carefully controlled neutrality...