Word: ernst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grapes of Wrath is the Oakies' saga. It is John Ernst Steinbeck's longest novel (619 pages) and more ambitious than all his others combined (Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, et al.). The publishers believe it is "perhaps the greatest modern American novel, perhaps the greatest single creative work this country has ever produced." It is not. But it is Steinbeck's best novel, i.e., his toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is "great...
...answer to these statements, a group of nine Manhattan physicians including Drs. Ernst Philip Boas and Henry Rawle Geyelin of Columbia, and Drs. Foster Kennedy and Henry Barker Richardson of Cornell sent Manhattan colleagues a mimeographed campaign sheet of brief, basic arguments for health insurance. Compulsory health insurance, they said, would lower the "financial burden of illness by spreading the cost over . . . large groups of people. It would enable the sick to seek medical treatment early in disease. ... It would enable the physician to give more adequate care to [poor] patients because such care would not entail an added financial...
Because of his likeness to Hitler he was arrested by German police in 1933 but saved because the Nazis came into power the next day and the late Ernst Rochm was struck by the possibilities of using him later. Eventually, he says, the Nazis found four doubles for Hitler...
Grace attacked the Student Union for its actions in the Roxbury High School case and quoted a letter from Frederick Ernst, head of the Principals' Association of New York City, describing the Union as a "bootleg organization." He also urged "cooperation" as the solution of the Town-Gown problem in Cambridge
...Schoenheimer have found little difficulty in securing hospital and university appointments. Other valuable medical scientists, some of whom have not yet achieved medical prominence, are helped by the 77 well-known members of Manhattan's Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Medical Scientists, including Drs. Bernard Sachs, Ernst Philip Boas, John Augustus Hartwell, William Hallock Park, and headed by famed Clinician Emanuel Libman. The Committee, which is nondenominational, administers funds received from the National Coordinating Committee Fund, Inc. in Manhattan, and provides fellowships at U. S. medical schools and hospital laboratories for well-qualified physicians who apply...