Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snowy tables were arrayed the immaculate bosoms of Cabinet members, of all loyal Senators and party wheel-horses who had not been sent into the field, of lobbyists to whom $100 is a mere flyspeck on the expense account, of timid-looking souls who may have been frightened by stern letters of invitation, of would-be office holders, of nobodies whose sense of importance was enlarged by attending a $100 dinner. Two noteworthy guests were Messrs. Walter P. Chrysler and William Green. Madam Secretary Perkins and Madam Director of the Mint Ross were among the very few women guests...
...expansion is the simple principle of Founder-President Charles Rudolph Walgreen that a chain can be as long as it wants provided each link is strong. Each of his corner drugstores in 33 States can stay put so long as it is profitable, no longer. Now 63, bald, humorless, stern-faced Drugman Walgreen started rolling pills in a Dixon, Ill. drugstore in his teens. He left Dixon for Chicago when he was 20, got a drug clerk's job the day he arrived, started studying to be a pharmacist. He bought his first store on Chicago's South...
Selection of Edgerton, Glaser, and Stern came as a result of competitions lasting approximately six weeks. The other members of their boards will be appointed later, as the competition for these candidates has not yet ended definitely...
Announcement of the appointing of three chairmen for Freshman Red Book committees was made yesterday by John L. Donnell, editor of the Red Book. John D. Edgerton, of Ithaca, New York, Robert J. Glaser, of University City, Missouri, and Joseph S. Stern, Jr., of Cincinnati, Ohio, were named to head the activities, literary, and sports boards respectively...
...Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears solid silk pajamas and has a way with the "pigeons" (girls). There is good-hearted Fay Fromkin, whose girl friend, a late comer, is Teddy Stern (Katherine Locke). Teddy, an unsure, shy little typist with a great desire for gentility, is glad to get away from home for the first time, glad to escape her mother's nagging about the way Sam Rappaport jilted her after they had been going steady for three years...