Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom shivered. Witness Boston's jaw dropped. So did Prosecutor Dewey's. He and Attorney Stryker strode to the bench where sat stern-faced Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...
...nearly three years after J. David Stern went to New York and bought the Post, clever little Publisher Roy Howard of "the World-Telegram remarked: "I wonder what's going to happen to the Post when Dave takes it out from under the oxygen tent...
...Philadelphia, Mr. Stern had cannily hitched his publishing wagon to the rising Democratic star as early as 1930. His success as the publisher of the Philadelphia Record,. "FIGHTING ALONE" for Franklin D. Roosevelt in a traditionally Republican town, encouraged him to try his luck as the one fanatically New Deal voice in Democratic New York City. But in spite of "oxygen" for Post circulation (266,151 for the six months ending March 31, 1938) provided by guessing contests, cheap sets of Dickens and reproductions of Modern Masters, the Post has not done too well. With 3,251,223 lines...
Less liberal politically than his colleague and onetime schoolmate. Chicago's George William Cardinal Mundelein, Cardinal Hayes was less conservative, less stern than the two other U. S. princes-Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell. Philadelphia's Dennis Cardinal Dougherty. Six months will probably elapse before the Pope, guided by the Vatican's card index of U. S. candidates, picks a new Archbishop of New York...
Married. Martha Eccles Dodd Roberts, 26), daughter of onetime anti-Nazi U. S. Ambassador to Germany William Edward Dodd; and Alfred Kaufman Stern. 40, Manhattan housing expert; both for the second time; in Round Hill...