Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Controller William A. Runnells was known in Maine as a stern economizer and a man of lofty integrity. Recently, as auditors prepared to report to the Governor on Maine finances, Runnells shot himself (not fatally) in the chest. He called it an accident. Governor Lewis O. Barrows learned of shortages of at least $72,000 in State funds, which Run nells had handled for eight years, was told that Runnells had been a large and lavish liver, a collector of nude snapshots (some of Augusta women). Last week authorities were hunting for the photo graphic subjects...
While Dean Chen busied himself trying to revive in Free China such chieh-chi, the seasonal cloud bank which has shrouded Chungking and the upper Yangtze valley since last autumn (effectively preventing Japanese air bombing) began fatefully to lift last week. In Chungking squads of police, under stern orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, worked down street after street driving out of Chungking and into the suburbs thousands of Chinese whom they hoped thus to save from the expected bombs. Many Chinese merchants, restaurant keepers and singsong-house proprietors vigorously protested that they were doing a fine business in Chungking, preferred...
...States, "the budget of the United States can be balanced. If the next President is a fighter and will, without qualification, pledge himself in his conscience and before his people--and before Congress--to fight for a balanced budget, he should not fall. But he must be made of stern stuff...
...Sports commentator: Bill Stern...
Dillard was created by a merger of two impoverished old New Orleans schools, Congregationalist Straight College and Methodist Episcopal New Orleans University. The two church boards, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Rockefeller General Education Board and leading New Orleans citizens, including Rosenwald Son-in-Law Edgar B. Stern, pledged $2,000,000 to build the new university, opened it in 1935. It was named for an old Virginia blue blood, Dr. James Hardy Dillard, who for 24 years had devoted himself to improving the South's Negro country schools...