Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow-countrymen are undernourished. A great preacher of free speech who threatened the political ruin of the Senator who for the sake of principle opposed his Supreme Court 'reform.' A bitter critic of bureaucracy who has created so many bureaux that Washington cannot contain them. A stern advocate of economy who has spent more money than any President in the history of the United States...
Brash, racy Walter O'Hara sat quietly by in a Providence court last week while Judge O'Connell smoothed the way for cash sale of the Star-Tribune. Among prospective purchasers New York Post and Philadelphia Record Publisher J. David Stern had the inside track in this week's bidding because he and Son David III had already offered orally to satisfy a $122,000 mortgage, pay $20,000 preferred claims, give general creditors 20? on the dollar. Well Mr. Stern knew the property he sought, for he was general manager of its ancestor, the News...
...fast as they arrived waiting police and plainclothesmen put them back on the ferries and tubes to Manhattan. When their infiltration was nonetheless accomplished, they staged an orderly demonstration and were promptly picked up and whirled in waiting automobiles to the city line, where they were dumped with a stern lecture. Some promptly returned and were arrested. One Workers' Defense League observer was seized and searched, and when he asked the plainclothesman to identify himself, received the reproving answer: "Why don't you want to be a gentleman?" At the subsequent hearings even reporters and photographers were searched...
Haines defeated Ladd (H): 15-12, 15-13, 11-15, 18-17; Sawyer defeated Marvin (H): 15-8, 15-10, 12-15, 13-15, 5-10; Stern (H) defeated Rogers: 15-10, 15-10, 17-18, 18-16; Williams defeated Glidden (H): 15-10, 9-15, 15-10, 17-16; Gidding (H) defeated Morgan...
...Wages & Hours Bill has had hard sledding. Introduced in both Houses in the thick of the Court fight last spring, it got through the Senate in July. In the Senate, the bill found stern opposition from Republicans like Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, who considered it a step on the road to "the centralized, authoritarian State" but in the House it never even had a chance to be denounced. House procedure empowers the Rules Committee to determine the order in which bills shall be considered, apportion time limits for general debate. Thus, by not giving a "rule" to bring...