Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faith of ascetic, heretic-burning John Calvin was stern, hard and alien to a boisterous young country in a nature-taming age. Calvinism insisted on 1) the total depravity of man, 2) a God who, for His own good reasons, irrevocably divided all mankind into the Elect and the Damned, 3) strict "blue laws...
...Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin had been in Publisher Robert McLean's mind for a long time, but he had never had the right kinds of things to fill it with. He got them last fortnight when he bought up the strikebound Philadelphia Record from J. David Stern (TIME...
Lost Voice. In going out of business, Dave Stern left the third largest city in the U.S., which once had 16 newspapers, with only two major dailies-and only one editorial viewpoint. With the crusading Record, conservative Publisher McLean got powerful (50,000 watts) Radio Station WCAU and the Camden papers. McLean intended to keep the radio station going and incorporate the Record's Sunday features (among them the American Weekly) in a Sunday edition for the Bulletin. The profitable Camden papers and the weekday Record, which he did not want, he could sell at his leisure. Meanwhile...
Said Dave Stern as he wound up his affairs: "I'm just awful tired and confused. The people I thought were for me, were against me. I'm 60 and if I ever do another stroke of work in my life I'm a sucker. I'm going to lie on a beach and not even think, and just be a mollusk." It was hard for Philadelphia to believe that Stern could ever take it easy. Some guessed that he and his son, David III, publisher of the Camden papers, would take their money (around...
...week's end the still-bewildered Guild announced that its strike was still on, against whoever tried to resume publication. Yet national Guild leaders knew that they had suffered a major blow. They had pulled the trigger on Dave Stern, and the gun had backfired...