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Again and again Madrid proletarians were driven in mad, screaming retreat, but again and again their shattered lines reformed to attempt fresh resistance with Spanish stubbornness, then suffer another rout. Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness. The steep-banked Manzanares River still lay between him and the capital and he knew its six bridges were heavily mined, but along with attending to military details he was also ready with his own White police force and his own skeleton force of civil servants ready to install them in the Government buildings which...
...sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone set up for the occasion. Guessing the Nominee's intention, and well aware that the Charterites, now allied with local Democrats, were anathema to the Republican machine which they had ousted, Adviser Taft hurried after his principal to caution: "Go easy on that, Governor. You know." "Yes, I know, I know," returned the Nominee. Moment later he was at the microphone. "I want to congratulate you," he cried to Cincinnatians, "on your Charter form of government. . . . You have gotten away from the city machines which...
...Ours is not like that," said the conservative economist. "Our plan makes for slow action, probably for hesitation if you please, for caution and with resultant failure to secure that degree of appreciation, that quick action which might be very well expected if an investment trust were conducted, let us say, by Mr. Barney Baruch...
...organization. Written in December 1922 and January 1923, the "will" is a contemporary character analysis of the Communist high command. Of Stalin, Lenin says: "He has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution. Stalin is too rude, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes unsupportable in the office of General Secretary. Therefore, I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin...
...spectacle of John L. Lewis on Organized Labor's pinnacle, throned on Coal and crowned with Steel, is not fantastic. With Welsh caution, he himself protests he sees no further than 1936, declares...