Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been sold to anyone who cared to take a purely nominal "test of skill" by arranging "in order of artistic merit" the racing colors of King George and three other prominent turfmen.* After 9,000,000 tickets had been printed and many sold, Scotland Yard suddenly intervened. Stern Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour held the scheme to be a lottery. His Grace the Duke of Atholl had to think fast...
...their annual meeting at Hamburg last week as though into a morgue. Adolf Hitler has reduced Nazi interference with German industry to a minimum, placing at his Cabinet's right hand an Economic Council of industrial tycoons (TIME, July 24). But shipping is another matter. Last week slender, stern old Dr. Max von Schinckel, board chairman of Hamburg-American since 1910, rose to announce the resignation of himself and the entire board...
Night before Mahatma Gandhi was to begin a march across India preaching "individual civil disobedience" he and a group of his disciples were jailed at Ahmedabad by order of stern Viceroy Earl Willingdon, successor to mild Baron Irwin who as Viceroy permitted Mr. Gandhi to achieve world prominence by his famed "salt march to the sea" (TIME, March...
...Party. The committee was restive, if not rebellious. Many of the Mahatma's followers feel that his fasts to impress Indians with the need of abolishing "untouchability" have left his more basic "civil disobedience" struggle against Britain far in the lurch. Since 1931, moreover, India has had a stern, strong-handed Viceroy- Canada's onetime Governor General, the Earl of Willingdon. His police have hounded civil disobedients so hard that last week the Executive Committee was in a mood to give up. When Mr. Gandhi's whizzing motor arrived they had before them a resolution to withdraw...
Among those in the tournament are the following: A. D. Baldwin, F. W. Baldwin, Bradford Beach, W. H. Clark, D. S. Davis, Albert Lassar, E. E. Mitchell, J. P. Riesman, A. L. Rottenberg, Robert Schafer, Harry Schortland, H. H. Stavsky, J. D. Stern, J. E. Stevens, E. Woodward...