Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticism of U. S.-Latin American relations, President Roosevelt made him general adviser to the U. S. delegation at the Pan American conference at Montevideo. Last December J. David Stern, an ardent New Dealer from Philadelphia, bought the New York Evening Post and in February hired Dr. Gruening as editor. The association lasted only a few weeks. For all their enthusiasm for social reform, Stern of Russian-Jewish extraction and Gruening of German-Jewish extraction were unable...
More than 500 Austrians died in the civil war which Nazis started in Styria Province at the signal of a bullet fired into heroic little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' spinal cord (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week the new Government of stern, thrifty Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg took the amazing step of compelling one man to pay the entire cost of Styria's civil...
...windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably above him. The Ramapo, its stern at the base of the wave behind, was found to be tilted up at an angle 11 ° 50'. Using this angle and the distance from bridge to stern the wave-height was computed by trigonometry, and like computations were made from other observers' measurements. The results, in good agreement...
...stern example to nature-loving but drought-smitten subjects of King George, Queen Mary has had every one of the lawn sprinklers at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle turned firmly off (TIME, June 25). Last week when Their Majesties' favorite granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth ("Baby Betty") appeared at her first Buckingham Palace garden party she dropped her curtsy on grass burned practically brown. While the King kissed Betty and stood chatting with her, impish gusts of wind suddenly blew hot among the 9,000 garden party guests. Too late scores of women grabbed for wide-brimmed hats which had left...
...Danville, Ky. 100 years ago was born John Marshall Harlan who rose to the U. S. Supreme Court bench, served there 33 years (1877-1911), won fame as a "great dissenter", a stern defender of civil liberty. Last fortnight in Danville (pop. 6,800) another Judge Harlan gazed sternly at two young men before him. He was Police Judge Jay W. Harlan, a third cousin. One of the young men was Jack Durham, 23, city editor of the Danville Advocate and local correspondent for Associated Press. The other was Wesley Carty, 23, correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal. The judge...