Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again asked Congress for the Murray "Full Employment" bill-which even New Deal columnists like Ernest Lindley complain is grossly misnamed, because its only concrete provision is to budget the national production, employment and income. Again he asked for a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee, for supplementing State unemployment compensation by boosting payments to a $25-for-26-weeks maximum. He bluntly called the 40? minimum-wage level "obsolete"-a follow-up on the disclosure by Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis that the Government hopes to raise real wages by 40% to 50% without, by some economic magic, raising prices...
Along Russia's borders from Poland to Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. position evoked response. Even Czechoslovakia's Russophile Fierlinger discussed earnestly with Ernest Bevin concrete plans to divert some of his country's almost exclusively Russian trade down the Elbe toward Britain...
...Government's dampening answer to the "demob" cry came from pale-eyed, mild-mannered Minister of Labor George Isaacs. The Government, he said, would stick to a modified version of the plan drafted by his potent predecessor, Ernest Bevin, six months ago: 1,110,000 men would be released this year, "specialist workers" could go at once. The rest would have to wait...
...Ministers in the socialist Swedish and British Governments-and soon in the Norwegian and Danish-meet and draw up a program together?" By that time Danish Foreign Minister John Christmas Moeller and Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie were already in London, talking trade and credits with British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...
...been sitting on his packed bags for months. While they waited for visas to Portugal or France, Carol of Rumania and his statuesque friend, Magda Lupescu, dallied extravagantly at the Quintandinha, a lavish State casino outside Rio de Janeiro. With Carol and Madame dallied the royal Chancellor Ernest Udarianu and his wife, a Cuban valet de chambre and his wife, and the dogs-two black poodles, two Pekingese, a Doberman and a dachshund...