Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor with Mexican authorities who had just won their independence from Spain, wangled more & more land grants, opened the way for new settlers. By 1835 there were 20,000 Anglo-Americans, only 3,000 Mexicans in Texas. In Mexico City alarmed officials tried to stem the tide by issuing stern decrees against slavery and immigration. Stephen Austin and the vast majority of settlers were all for patching things up with the Government, but William Travis and a handful of other hotheads began to argue with guns. After a few skirmishes a provisional government was set up in November 1835 with...
...Edward H. Fielden. Queen Mary and other members of the royal family had come down by train, were already at the quay-side as King Edward's plane landed. For five hours the public was kept away as the royal family went over the ship from stem to stern, lunched together in private. Irrepressible Princess Elizabeth loudly demanded to be shown the children's nursery, screamed with excitement when she was allowed to push a button that sent the hoarse boom of the Queen Mary's whistle echoing across Southampton Water...
...credit side, Guildmen pointed to their coherent national organization, to their contracts with the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, Publisher Julius David Stern's New York Post and Philadelphia Record, and the huge, tabloid New York Daily News, to the fact that Guild and labor support had kept alive a bitter strike of 25 Milwaukee Guildmen against the Hearstian News since last February. Outside the four founding cities, strong Guilds had grown in Boston, Philadelphia, northern California, St. Louis and Washington, D. C. Chicago was weak, but New York, with 1,551 active Guildmen, was the national tower of moral...
Attempts to take pictures with flashlight bulbs were met with stern opposition from the proctors for fear that they would excite the crowd further...
...Dakota firm out of business this time. Representative Boland announced that the Bill would be beaten by at least 50 votes, and Speaker Byrns pooh-poohed self-confidently. On the morning debate began, every Representative received a memorandum from the Farm Credit Administration ripping the Bill from stem to stern. That helped some but House leaders appealed to an even greater political authority. While the Bill was under consideration in Committee of the Whole, Speaker Byrns rose on, the floor and solemnly read a letter "expressing the wishes and hopes of some 50,000,000 people...