Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurricanes at sea, had been dodging from cay to cay rather than risk crossing the open channel between Florida and the Bahamas. Gaily Franklin Roosevelt told waiting newshawks how only an hour before while the Potomac was steaming at ten knots, he had caught a bonito, trolling over the stern rail...
...following men have been appointed to act as managers in House sports for this term: Charles F. Tillinghast, Jr. ocC, crew manager; Thomas J. Darcey, Jr. '37, golf manager; Maurice M. Stern '36, tennis manager; and Leavitt S. White '37, baseball manager...
Broadening into what seemed a stern lecture to the New Deal as a whole, the Justice continued: "To escape assumptions of such [arbitrary] power on the part of the three primary departments of the Government is not enough. Our institutions must be kept free from the appropriation of unauthorized power by lesser agencies as well. And if the various administrative bureaus and commissions, necessarily called and being called into existence by the increasing complexities of our modern business and political affairs, are permitted gradually to extend their powers by encroachments-even petty encroachments-upon the fundamental rights, privileges and immunities...
Last week because the Stock Exchange failed to suspend a member until after his firm was enjoined from further business by the Attorney General of New York, President Gay got his first taste of stern public criticism. Walter P. McCaffray & Co. got into trouble in an effort to bolster an affiliated concern called German American Securities Co. Inc. by lending it some $100,000 last summer. To raise part of that sum Walter P. McCaffray & Co. borrowed too freely upon its customers' securities. Meantime, according to the prosecuting attorney, German American was doing some highly irregular bookkeeping...
With three weeks and a day of outdoor rowing behind them the Varsity crew has settled down into the long, early-season grind. The first race is against Princeton and M.I.T. on May 2. Whiteside had not made any changes in the stern two oars nor in the bow pair but the waist four seems to be only moderately satisfactory if the minor but repeated changes he has made here are indicative of relatively greater weakness...