Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading spokesman for Europe's socialist democrats, Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who has said he detests Fascist Spain, was well aware of the desperately delicate situation. He and non-socialist democrats were struggling against Communism for the political soul of Europe, for the trust of men who would never again trust those who tolerated Franco. The U.S. was more remote from the scene, but as the leading power of the democratic coalition, the U.S. was not remote from the responsibility...
...Ernest Hemingway became a pin-up boy in earnest: popular-magazine illustrators Frederic Varady, Al Buell and Mortimer Wilson decided that the taurine author's head was one of the six "most startling and exciting heads in the world . . . faunlike." The other pre-eminent polls: Admiral William F. Halsey, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, U.A.W. Leader Walter Reuther, Cinemactor Tyrone Power, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover...
Sirs: In the last issue of your magazine [TIME, Feb. 11] you included a discussion of American fiction during the past 30 or 40 years. . . . You appeared to apologize for the fact that the outstanding novelists of the last decade were Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and John O'Hara. Pardon us, but we had thought that no one need apologize for the splendid writings of these men. However, our real issue with you is the fact that you omitted Thomas Wolfe from your list of our best authors. This is incredible. . . . Although they are unorthodox, his novels which...
...business which U.S. Steel lost, it got its tax bill cut in half; it also paid off $114,000,000 on war plants. Result: net profits were down only to $57,000,000 v. $61,000,000 in 1944. Bethlehem Steel did even better. C.I.O.-hating Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel came up smiling with a boost in profits...
...sudden it looked as if Clarence Hatry was going to try anyway. Chairman Ernest Edkins of Wyman & Sons, one of Britain's largest chain bookstore companies, hastily clucked a warning to stockholders: Hatry was trying to buy up control of the company. Wyman & Sons stock, selling at 53½ shillings, dropped five shillings next day, four more the day after. Hatry denied trying to get control. But if that was what he was up to, the drop in price made it easier to buy any stock he wanted...