Word: hardheadedness
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General Chiang was now master of South and Central China but many Kuomintang politicians denounced him as a Fascist or worse. With a characteristic gesture he resigned all his offices and went to Japan. There Chiang, the shrewd, hardheaded, hard-living, callous soldier who had made his way to power...
Born in 1798, Delacroix had an adventurous infancy. He was dropped from a ship's side by one careless nurse, nearly burnt up by another, and when he reached the age of reason came close to hanging himself in imitation of an engraving. From his German mother Delacroix may...
High though the hopes of Mr. Green were, the A. F. of L. in convention sessions was not precisely the picture of a fighting machine. Purple tirades against John L. Lewis seldom roused the stolid, hardheaded delegates to more than perfunctory applause. A stirring denunciation of the Sit-Down by...
Carol Layton (Jean Harlow), bright sprig of an old family of Saratoga horse fanciers, comes home from England engaged to a New York socialite named Hartley Madison (Walter Pidgeon), whose bankroll is more impressive than his sophistication. To Carol's father's crony, Bookmaker Duke Bradley (Clark Gable...
One day last week President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Summer Welles for Under Secretary, of Robert Walton Moore for Counselor, of the State Department. Next day both came back confirmed. Thus did Secretary of State Hull escape from a quandary, for Sumner Welles, a dapper, twice...