Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years in the White House have greyed his hair, accentuated the pastiness of his complexion, deepened the lines in his round boyish face, so easy to caricature, so hard to paint. He has worked off 15 Ib. of fat. His health has been uninterruptedly good, thanks to a stern physical routine. Two dozen months of the White House spotlight were enough to generate an embryonic halo about the head of Calvin ("Weaned-on-a-pickle") Coolidge, a previously insignificant politician who had cautiously climbed the Massachusetts "escalator." Two dozen months of spotlight put completely in the shadow Herbert Hoover...
Four years ago Ultramares Corp. of London, on the strength of the financial statement of Fred Stern & Co., Inc. of Manhattan, loaned Fred Stern & Co. money. Fred Stern & Co. soon went bankrupt. It was learned that the audit had been faulty. The audit had been made by Touche, Niven & Co. Ultramares Corp. brought a $203,000 suit against Touche, Niven & Co. All accountants have watched the case closely, thinking it would establish a precedent in the question of what responsibility auditors must shoulder...
...board of officers tries him Feb. 16 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard he will be the first U. S. officer of his rank to be so disciplined since 1862.* He may be discharged from the service, but observers last week did not foresee greater punishment for him than a stern official reprimand...
Once Ogden Goelet's yacht, then a despatch boat for the U. S. Navy, then the presidential yacht Mayflower, a trim white ship lay tied up in Philadelphia last week being changed once more into a naval craft to serve in the Caribbean. Fire broke out in her stern. It raged forward, reached and sent rocketing some explosives, injured two fire-fighting seamen, got completely out of control. The firefighters had to withdraw and watch the withered Mayflower burn and sink until her bow rested on the bottom of the Delaware River...
When his sleigh upset, smashing its tail light, Fred Johnson of Brantford, Ont., drove on through the night, was arrested. Said the stern Canadian judge, fining Sleighrider Johnson $1 for driving without a tail light: "When your light was smashed you should have remained where upset until daylight...