Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farley down dared to hope that the City of Friends would this autumn be thoroughly friendly to Democracy for the first time in 50 years. John Bernard ("Jack") Kelly, an enterprising Irish oarsman and contractor who registered as a Democrat only in 1933, was picked by Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and other ardent Pennsylvania New Dealers to put the city back on the Democratic map. This Nominee Kelly proceeded to do largely by promoting a grand jury case against Nominee Wilson charging that, as controller, he had diverted some of a $65,000 city appropriation into...
...Spend!" the advertisement was signed by William Randolph Hearst who had run it in his own 28 papers and 60 others throughout the land. With no outlet of his own in Philadelphia, he had bought space for his anti-New Deal advertisement in the reactionary Inquirer. When Julius David Stern, shirtsleeve publisher of the Record, saw it there, he picked it up, reprinted it free, used it as an excuse for another of his stand-up fights with a man whom most other publishers prudently ignore...
Chief characteristic of "Dave" Stern is his pugnacious aggressiveness. A practicing journalist who puts a high price on the power of his editorials, he picked up the New Brunswick (N. J.) Times in 1912, sold it at a profit after a clean-up campaign against the local government, moved on to Springfield, Ill. repeated the process, went back East and did almost the same trick with the Camden, N. J. Evening Courieer and Morning Post. The Philadelphia Record was a down-at-heel Democratic rag in a Republican city when Publisher Stern took it over. In Philadelphia it now ranks...
...Stern-Hearst feud developed several months ago when Publisher Hearst tried to woo away some of Stern's best men. Politics rather than personalities were at the bottom of their grudge fight. Out in the open last week it took on new proportions. Besides reprinting the Hearst attack on the New Deal, New Dealer Stern editorially challenged the master of San Simeon thus on the Record's front page: "Let Hearst, arch reactionary, battle the liberal Record at close range, and let Philadelphia citizens be the jury. . . . Philadelphia is one of the few cities in the country where...
...astonished to find it described by Vanderlip as almost pastoral, the abode of gay spirits whose deepest animosities could be dissipated by a hearty slap on the back and a few frank words. A cloud gathered at the panic of 1907, soon disappeared. "Oh, but we had a stern captain in 1907; it was during those days of strain that I discovered for myself what an admirable intelligence gleamed through the fierce eyes of J. Pierpont Morgan.'' More trouble threatened during the War. when National City plans for financing a French loan collided with the plans...