Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steelworkers' President Phil Murray was busy at the negotiating table, but C.I.O. President Phil Murray had other troubles on his mind. For months Murray had been threatening stern measures against rebellious unions like the Communist-wired United Electrical Workers. Last week U.E., the C.I.O.'s biggest left-wing union, beat the C.I.O. chief to the punch. At its stormy 14th annual convention in Cleveland, the U.E.'s leadership made all but the final motions of breaking off from C.I.O. and forming a third association of U.S. labor unions, which would be Communist-controlled...
...developed a new twist for TV, which Sports Director Bill Stern calls "regional" telecasting. It is also tailored to local loyalties: last week NBC telecast Army-Davidson from New York to Richmond, while New England got the Yale-Connecticut game...
Frederic D. Houghteling '50 was elected national NSA secretary and will serve from January, 1950 through January, 1951. He will also act as regional (Northern New England) treasurer. Robert J. Stern '50, the Harvard relegation chairman, was elected regional NSA leader, thus necessitating an election later in the term to name a new College chairman...
...Harvard contingent, headed by chairman Stern, included Edward F. Burke '50, Paul A. O'Leary '48, Houghteling, Robert F. Fuller '50, Allen E. Kline '50, Charles L. Nutt III '50, Thomas James-'52, David H. Hall '50, and George W. Miller...
...political maelstrom, personal lives veer crazily. In the underground days, for instance, Major Walker makes the Greek cause his own. At first, he disapproves of the stern British tactics against he Communist-liberal coalition, ELAS. He tries to argue with his superiors ("What are you after," a Brigadier asks, "a Greek army that reads the Statesman and Nation?"). But the major slowly suppresses his disapproval, just as he suppresses his feeling for Nitsa, the Greek girl who has worked beside him in the underground. As the civil war bleeds Greece, Walker's ife begins to seem flat and inadequate...