Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SIGMUND STERN General Chairman...
Milton Kaufman, once the executive vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, now an outdoor salesman, invoked the Fifth Amendment's protection. Monroe Stern, onetime Hearst writer and president of the New York Guild local, who became pressagent for the Yugoslav embassy, told the committee he never was a party member. Jack Ryan, a commissar of the New York Guild local until 1947, said he was now a self-employed "horticultural researcher"; he, like others, invoked the Fifth Amendment...
POTATO PRICE QUIZ by the U.S. Agriculture Department flushed more evidence of market rigging (TIME, June 20). The Government charged Manhattan's Jacob Stern & Co. with virtually cornering the supply of cash potatoes on the New York Mercantile Exchange in February so that it could juggle prices. The shortage that made cornering easier is ending. Government forecasters expect that the summer crop may be 20% over last year...
...reasons that made Virtuoso Stern change his mind included the following: 1) Iceland is a remarkable, if removed, place, with 100% literacy and a longstanding affection for the finer things in life; 2) it is a NATO partner, and has an air base manned by U.S. servicemen whose forays into society can give a onesided picture of U.S. culture; 3) Russians had stepped up their campaign of cultural sweetmeats, and Iceland's Communist Party made the most...
...Reykjavik Isaac Stern wowed his audience-he had to repeat his recital in the 800-seat theater - but his success was a mere icicle on an iceberg, compared with the Russian effort. Every year the Soviet Union dispatches culture delegations containing four to ten fine artists, e.g., soloists from the Leningrad ballet, violinists, singers, pianists, even chess players, and once sent Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian to conduct Iceland's national symphony. What makes Russian visits even more effective is the Russian practice of traveling to outlying communities to make music with local musicians...