Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is such hope it is dim today. Year ago, when Japan seized Chinchow. 90 miles from Shanhaikwan, U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson dashed off note after stern note. Last week news of Shanhaikwan's fall was brought to "Woodley," Mr. Stimson's home, just as he was tendering a reception to the diplomatic corps. Over cakes & tea Japan's new fait accompli was discussed-but nothing more...
...last week, Turks looked for the new moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin, Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...
...first time in the 13 years of national Prohibition a committee of Congress last week took the historic step of proposing to relax the stern mandates of the Volstead Act. To trie Flouse from its Ways & Means Committee was reported a bill (H. R. 13,312) legalizing 3.2% beer?a product about as strong as that sold currently in good speakeasies. After long hearings and solemn consideration the committee had concluded that no one could get drunk on such a beverage, that therefore it was a non-intoxicant under the 18th Amendment. Ostensibly H. R. 13,312 was put forward...
...Kaiser but as "German Regent." In Bavaria, where monarchist heads are hottest, the populace already hail 63-year-old Rupprecht of Wittlesbach as "Your Majesty'' and will certainly insist that he be made Regent of BaVaria if a Hohenzollern becomes German Regent. Rupprecht, a good fellow despite his stern exterior, used to joke at continued Bavarian loyalty to himself when the Republic was first proclaimed. Cheered to the echo at Munich, he shouted jovially at the crowd "Fine republicans you are!'' Nowadays, as his twinkling Mercedes carries him about Bavaria, Rupprecht accepts with dignified nods and bows the homage...
Against the crack ships of Sir Percy's fleet, the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania, Lord Essendon pits his Majestic, "world's biggest ship," his Olympic, his new Georgic. Both face stern competition from the French Line, the North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American combination, U. S. Lines and to a lesser extent from Il Duce's Italia Line. Though Tsar Emil Lederer of the Transatlantic Passenger Conference keeps fares equalized for all, the fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late...