Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former President (General Obregon, 1920-24) can be re-elected (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). They have caused to be shot as revolutionaries the only other presidential candidates, General Arnulfo Gomez (he of the Kaiser-like mustachios) and General Francisco Serrano (TIME, Nov. 21 et ante}. Therefore, General Alvaro Obregon, stern, one-armed warrior, rich rancher, ruthless patriot, was unanimously elected President of Mexico last week?there being no other candidate...
...conduct inconsistent with just and equitable practices of trade," Edwin H. Stern, partner in the brokerage firm of E. H. Stern & Co., was expelled from membership in the New York Stock Exchange, last week. He had made a personal profit of $1,000 in a complicated floor deal, while acting as a specialist in Manhattan Shirt stock. In 1910, Mr. Stern paid some $75,000 for his Stock Exchange seat. Now, when his seat is sold, he will receive a sum in the neighborhood...
Sole Democratic organ in a Vare-ridden city, the Philadelphia Record last week passed from the control of the Wanamaker family into the capable hands of Editor-Publisher J. David Stern, owner of the Evening Courier and the Morning Post of Camden, N. J., 42-year-old veteran of newspaper battles from Seattle, Wash., to Providence, R. I. Like the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (see above), the Record goes to a local boy. "New ownership," observed Mr. Stern, briefly, "implies no change in editorial policy...
Inventor White, satisfied, took the machine back to his laboratory for further study. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, army aviator and flying instructor, his stern mistress is aerodynamics. Quietly, persistently he has worked to prove his theory that a bicycle, like a bird, can gain forward momentum by upward strokes of wings...
Lazy women who got up only in time to attend the 12:15 o'clock mass at St. Ambrose Church, in Detroit, received a severe surprise. Father Foley, their assistant pastor, surveyed them with a stern glance and said that in the future no woman who had paint upon her lips would be given holy communion from his hands. In sombre terms, such as his Pontiff recently used to condemn similar lapses in female behavior (TIME, May 14), Father Foley characterized the use of lipstick: "This practice is irreverent and unbecoming and I will not countenance...