Word: ernest
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Minnesota Senator. It was about this time that he met a county attorney named Harold Stassen. Ball liked Stassen's views. They were two intellectual explorers in Midwest Minnesota and Joe helped elect Harold governor. So in 1940, when Minnesota's U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in an airplane crash, the nation's youngest governor (Stassen was then 33) filled the vacancy with Joe Ball, who at 34 became the nation's youngest Senator...
Fifteen months ago Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was full of pith and vinegar. In the House of Commons his strong voice rasped: "I will stake my political future on solving this [the Palestine] problem." Last week, sick & tired and with a voice that was little more than a heavy sigh, Ernie Bevin told the House that he had failed...
PARIS, February 27--Reliable reports said today that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin would sign a French-British alliance at some port along the French channel coast next Wednesday...
...Leverage. Palestine's position in the Middle East had some importance both in oil strategy and military strategy - though both were frequently exaggerated. Nevertheless, Ernest Bevin realized that Britain was paying too much for whatever advantages Palestine gave her. Policing Palestine was a drain in pounds sterling, a drain in manpower for troops. And Palestine was a drain on British prestige, for the Arabs blamed Britain for protecting Jews, and the Jews blamed Britain for shutting off immigration and applying harsh police measures against terrorists...
...With special reference to pseudo-intellectualism, flaunting of the discharge button, and sundry other affectations," the discussions was scheduled for February 29. When reached last night, Ernest I. Sly '43 would only say, "The whole idea finks of a filthy plot against the proletariat...