Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published next week are liberty-loving; Mr. Ernst's ideas on another constitution, a brisk anecdotal history of the U. S. Constitution and its makers which barely leaves the Supreme Court justices a bench to sit on (The Ultimate Power-Doubleday, Doran...
...Manhattan in the apartment of Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Campbell Broun a meeting which had nothing to do with U. S. legalists. At Mr. Broun's were gathered a group of liberal-thinking newshawks, and, with them, Mr. Broun's friend, bright-eyed little Lawyer Morris Leopold Ernst. Hatched at this and subsequent meetings was what has since grown to be the American Newspaper Guild. Lawyer Ernst had a lot of ideas about the newshawks' union, became its lawyer, drafted its constitution...
Germinating in Mr. Ernst's mind the past three years has been another idea: a guild for lawyers that would give them a freedom for liberal thought and action not provided by the A. B. A. and its House of Delegates. Last autumn Mr. Ernst and some friends wrote a terse 500-word "Appeal to American Lawyers" which pulled no punches, sent it far & wide to U. S. legalists over the name of Frank Patrick Walsh, onetime member of the War Labor Conference Board, now a Manhattan attorney, who agreed to act as Guild president in its organizational stages...
...that minority portion of its membership which has consistently taken a hostile stand to proposals and legislation of a forward-looking character . . . [concerning] child labor, reasonable business regulation, security and labor." "[The minority's concern for liberty has been property." secondary to its concern for Earnest Morris Ernst's clarion call did not go unanswered. Within a fortnight more than 250 letters came into the National Lawyers Guild's Manhattan offices, others were addressed to Mr. Walsh personally. Preceding a national convention in Washington next month, scores of cities sought charters in the Guild, affiliation with which...
Students of surrealism rank with Founder Breton and converted Dadaist Max Ernst, several practitioners of equal or greater importance. There is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities, adding to one work a startling note by carefully painting realistic tea biscuits on the end of a painted crate. There is Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly...