Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens to pondering on what the world will be like when it does. No spectacular moves led to the pondering. But in a week marked by a ferocious arithmetical dispute between Republicans and Democrats about the national debt (see p. 1 6), and by President Roosevelt's stern condemnation of Russia (see p. 77), a series of Presidential and State Department moves clarified U. S. foreign policy more sharply than at any time since the war began...
...Dublin the Irish Times editorialized: "According to all principles of British law, there can be no doubt of their guilt. The appeal we are making is ad misericordiam. Admittedly we have no case, but in our view there are higher considerations than stern justice and law." In Britain the Manchester Guardian, recalling the three Irish Republicans hanged in 1867 for killing a Manchester police sergeant, warned: "Nobody looking back on Irish history can fail to see the immense importance that the fate of individuals tried and punished by British authorities has had in Irish history...
Rasil Pollitt '40, Alan Gottieb '41. Laurence B. Grose '41, David Fleischman '41. Laurence Speiber 1L. Walter Rosen '42, Maurice Freedman '43, Richard E. Stern...
...cane, passed his 81st birthday last week quietly at Doom in The Netherlands. Nazi Germany took no official notice of the anniversary. Instead it turned back 228 years and celebrated the birth of Wilhelm II's great-great-granduncle, Frederick II. An intellectual, artistic youth whose stern father had to smack him around for years to make a man of him, Frederick II built up Prussia into a first-class European power. He became "the Great" by daring to take on, with backing only from England, the combined forces of Austria, France, Russia, Sweden and Saxony who wished...
...roll call of his paper's stockholders reads like a list of Dun & Bradstreet's AA ratings. Some of them: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; Marshall Field III; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman; Columnist Dorothy Thompson...