Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week progressed the Franco-Thaï quarrel grew into an ironic kettle-storm which somehow summed up all the topsy-turvy diplomatic scrambles of 1940. The same France which could once send a stern note to an Eastern potentate and get presents, favors, concessions in return, meekly begged ratification of a non-aggression pact of a country whose name sounded and politics looked something like Toyland. Thailand ignored the request. Its Government at Bangkok grew insistent on the subject of its claims against Indo-China. It looked as if mighty France might have to give in to the aggression...
...Pearl Harbor six months ago, sailors' girls, sailors' mothers. The air jangled with the familiar sounds of "the Fleet's in"-the rattle of anchor chains, the shrill of boatswains' pipes-finally the lilting bugle notes of liberty call. Over the sides of the stern grey ships, up from the bowels of four submarines poured officers and men, into motor launches, gigs, barges. Ashore they disappeared like snow in spring. The grey ships, manned by skeleton crews, quieted down...
When Mayor LaGuardia was elected, he appointed as hospital commissioner a stern-faced doctor who for years had been head of top-flight Mt. Sinai Hospital, and onetime chief of Manhattan's department of health - Sigismund Schulz Goldwater. Dr. Goldwater fired political appointees, drew up strict rules for the management of all New York City hospitals. He wangled research appropriations for the hospital department from the city for the first time in history. During his administration he spent over $50,000,000 for hospital construction. But, says he, "I am just as proud of the old buildings I demolished...
...Sears, Roebuck Heiress Mrs. Marion Rosenwald Stern (represented on PM's board by her man-of-business Nathan Levin who runs the 70-odd Rosenwald family money pools), buyer of PM's No. 1 block of stock, representing a $250,000 investment...
Robert H. Loeb 3L, Birmingham, Ala.; John F. O'Conor 2L, Cincinnati, Ohio; Wilson C. Piper 2L, Caribou, Me.; John B. Poor 3L, Andover, Me.; John N. Stern 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Robert O. Swados 3L, Buffalo, N. Y.; John R. Taylor 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Leonard Ugelow 2L, St. Albans, N. Y.; and Joseph M. Well 2L, Chicago...