Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special committee had pondered the whole idea. Their object was not to write a law but to study "the field of policy." For two weeks members had listened to more than 100 witnesses; hearings filled over 600 pages. Among the witnesses: General of the Army George Marshall, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, B. F. McLaurin of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Mrs. Charles D. Rockel, chairman of the international relations committee of the Royersford (Pa.) Woman's Club...
...Hutchins is now a No. 1 man with an A+ title. In an administrative shake-up which he called "purposely confused," Dr. Hutchins last week turned over his title as president of the University of Chicago-but none of his major duties and privileges-to suave, 44-year-old Ernest C. Colwell, who had ably served for the past year as vice president and dean of faculties. For himself Dr. Hutchins devised the new post of chancellor...
...youth remained on him, but it seemed to have left everybody else. Some of his friends had died; a few had gone insane ; others had suddenly grown intensely serious and were reading Karl Marx. The literary limelight was no longer on him but on the novelist he most admired, Ernest Hemingway...
...homecoming was not what bald Ernest Humphrey Scott, president of Chicago's E. H. Scott Radio Laboratories, Inc., had expected. Back from a trip to Australia, he found the Scott Company's capitalization increased from 6,000 to 251,850 shares on the strength of wartime sales to the Navy. Almost 225,000 shares had already been sold to the public for $703,125. And Founder Scott found himself demoted from his $18,000-a-year job as president to advertising & sales manager...
...Ernest Hemingway, who tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...