Word: ernsts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scholarships given by Culver Military Academy at Culver, Ind. These four, who are in the upper third of their classes, "emotionally stable and in good health, possessed of ambition and a settled purpose in life," are George R. Koons, 14, of Chicago, Guy Barry, 15, of Portage, Mich., Robert Ernst Carroll, 14, of Fall River, Mass, and Campbell Gould, of Toledo. Unable otherwise to attend Culver (by the award's terms), they will receive an unusually generous stipend: $6,000 for a three-year course. Culver trustees will award in all twelve such scholarships, will watch closely the young students...
Returning home from a (light over Switzerland one day last week the Graf Zeppelin dipped low over Lake Constance. But instead of flying on to her hangar at Friedrichshafen near the north shore, the great silver sausage slowed to a standstill about 100 ft. above the water. Capt. Ernst Lehmann barked orders, rang signals. Six open tanks were dropped at cable-ends. Striking the surface they quickly filled with water, helped drag the great ship down. First the Graf poked her nose gingerly into the lake, then gently let her stern settle until she rested evenly upon her waterproofed gondolas...
Brazil Moratorium? Year ago Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer of the Bank of England reported on Australia, advised the Dominion merely to "retrench." In Buenos Aires last week correspondents were "reliably informed" from a Government source that Sir Otto would give Brazil a different piece of advice. His report would recommend, the correspondents were told, a "national moratorium" (postponement of payments) on all foreign obligations of Brazil's Na tional and State Governments. Sir Otto, although Vice Governor of the Bank of England, went to Brazil to oblige her chief British bankers, the House of Rothschild...
...Smiling Lieutenant (Paramount) was expensively designed to provide Maurice Chevalier with proper and improper opportunities to display his ingratiating leer, wear a straw hat with dinner clothes, gurgle flip bedchamber music as the accompaniment of an amorous escapade. Ernst Lubitsch, hired to give the proceedings the correct continental air, used sarcastic burlesque to brighten up a plot which no one would need to be told came out of an Austrian novel. He had fairly good material to work with-the story of a young lieutenant who, during a review for visiting royalty, winked at his girl just as the Princess...
Salzburg. Special music and drama, July 25-Aug. 30. Diversified programs will be directed by such famed men as Max Reinhardt, Arturo Toscanini, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Clemens Krauss, Franz Schalk, Bruno Walter...