Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biddle (known in Washington as "Mushmouth," because of his hot-potato accent) then practiced law, served as special assistant U.S. attorney, and in due time, with the backing of New Dealing Philadelphia Publisher Dave Stern, became chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (1934-35). He could hardly have picked a New Deal agency which his neighbors trusted less or hated more...
Unkindest Cut. At the State Department last week Judge Hull reportedly gave Vichy's man a stern lecture, warned him that France must send no aid to Germany if she wants sympathy from the U.S. Specifically, Vichy was told not to let the Nazis move into Dakar. But if the U.S. decides it must take over Martinique, the French will be expected to surrender the island without resistance. (If they should resist, the U.S. will probably just ring the island with cruisers, wait for the French to surrender, without wasting either American or Vichyfrench lives in an attack...
...camouflage netting still covered her bulk. Next morning the picture looked the same-until experts scanned it. The hidden bulk was queer, slightly misshapen. Close examination showed that the shape under the camouflage net was not the Scharnhorst, but a 530-ft. tanker with smaller vessels at bow and stern to give her the Scharnhorst's length, with scaffolding built up to look like the battleship's superstructure...
There have been especially heavy increases in air power, under the command of cyclonic Brigadier General Henry Black Clagett, who entered West Point (1902), when Douglas MacArthur was a first classman and who, like MacArthur, is impatient of sloppy soldiering, a stern disciplinarian. Henry Clagett's immediate superior and MacArthur's No. 1 man is leather-dimpled Major General George Grunert, in command of the Philippine regulars for the past year...
...Stern & Schneider...