Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Etienne Flandin's energetic drive for a freer French economy, the Chamber before adjourning for the holidays last week passed bills empowering the Government to unpeg the price of wheat in France. Zump!-the price dropped from a fictitious pegged price of $2.01 per bu. to $1.44. In stern orders to prefects all over France, Premier Flandin demanded and largely achieved last week a nationwide cut of about 12% in the price of baker's bread...
...First was with Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record...
...first institution for the higher education of Negroes in the U. S., called it Ashmun Institute. Soon after it opened in Oxford in 1854, a mob of townspeople appeared at Dr. Dickey's home, threatened to shoo his students across the Maryland border into slavery. Dr. Dickey's stern face and commanding figure cowed the mob, carried the college through its first crisis. At the close of the Civil War the name was changed to Lincoln University. After that its crises were all financial...
...Game of Names." The New York Post had only 60,000 circulation when David Stern bought it from Curtis-Martin year ago. The new owner tried to change the paper from a genteel, arch-Tory organ to a rowdy New Deal standardbearer. He succeeded mainly in making it a sensational hodgepodge. By fits & starts, the Post claimed to have 75,000 steady readers when it began its "Game of Names" contest last August...
...other New York dailies; $8,000 for radio advertising; $18,000 for a special clerical force of 300; $11,000 for printing the drawings, "suitable for framing"; about $5,000 to Artist Held. Total cost: $69,665. But an increase of 23,000 in circulation so pleased Publisher Stern that he promptly ordered the new, 12-week series, with drawings by Peter Arno...