Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's good friend Joseph E. Davies were Truman's mainstays at the big table. Thirty or more experts sat at little tables around the room. Churchill, while he was there, often consulted Attlee. When he returned from London, Attlee had less to say than Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Truman, a brisk and affable chairman, did not wander from the point as Roosevelt used to do. Some correspondents said that Stalin looked old and tired. But returning U.S. delegates said that Uncle Joe never looked better...
...Clement R. Attlee and Mr. Ernest Bevin arrived on planes six minutes apart. Mr. Bevin is Mr. Attlee's heir presumptive as leader of the Labor Party and Prime Minister, and it was deemed unwise to risk both leaders on the same plane. (Harry Truman and his next-in-succession Jimmy Byrnes had established the practice...
...first time in 14 years, strewed Britain with distinguished political corpses. Among the Conservative cadavers were: First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken; Secretary of State for India, Leopold S. Amery; Sir James Grigg, Secretary for War; Harold Macmillan, Secretary for Air; Sir Donald Somervell, Home Secretary; Ernest Brown, Minister of Aircraft Production; Richard K. Law, Minister of Education; Churchill's son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, Minister of Works; Churchill's son, Major Randolph Churchill...
This exhibit includes portraits by Artists Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff, Boris Chaliapin and Guy Rowe-and already it has attracted record crowds at the Portland Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art. And when these covers were shown in San Francisco as part of a special United Nations Art Exhibit, the State Department and Mayor Roger Lapham invited the foreign delegates to visit the museum and the reception there attracted more than five thousand people...
...Archbishop of Canterbury appointed a "Commission on Prohibited Degrees" which consulted such famed lay experts as Biochemist J. B. S. Haldane, Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, finally recommended extensive relaxation of the Table. But nothing happened...