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...Spunk. It looked like war last week between President Roosevelt's Coast Guard cutter Cayusa (which Ambassador Bowers used as a "Floating Embassy" before he went to Hendaye in France) and Generalissimo Franco's cruiser Almirante Cervera. As the Cayuga was taking refugees aboard at San Sebastian, the cruiser radioed: "We will open fire on you if you allow Government adherents to escape among the refugees...
What was said in the cascade of oratory at the Congress of Industry had been said a thousand times at a thousand businessmen's conventions since the spring of 1933. For such convention orators Recovery had served only to bolster their spunk, sharpen their tongues. Their speeches were still awash with the same ponderous complaints, the same doleful predictions, the same solemn warnings...
Today every Russian considers that Germany is the spearhead of such anti-Communist world forces as exist. Though Comrade Dimitroff has had no experience in directing a revolution, he has fearlessly fought Nazis and he does have spunk. This last week caused some Moscow wiseacres to guess that Dictator Stalin, famed for weeding out spunky subordinates, might intervene to prevent Dimitroff's election...
...official and no underling could be found with enough spunk to fly to the Dictator and deliver this resolution. Hence it was sent by telegraph. Dictator Chiang had only one advantage. He was so far in the wilds of West China that not even a Japanese bombing plane was likely to molest him. Warily he set part of the troops in his personal pay moving slowly toward North China. That Chiang planned any serious resistance to Japan few Chinese dared hope, and he did not go with his troops last week but stayed behind in the city of Chengtu with...
RADICALISM HELD A PATRIOTIC NEED Meantime in Chicago the year's best-publicized academic Red scare, having run up against a combination of scorn and spunk named Robert Maynard Hutchins, ignominiously collapsed. When Drugman Charles R. Walgreen withdrew his niece from University of Chicago, clamoring that the campus was rampant with Communism, President Hutchins angrily refused to dignify his vaporings with a public investigation (TIME, April 22). Only 75 of the University's 7,500 full-time students belonged to its two pinko student organizations.* But Drugman Walgreen got his hearing anyway, before the Illinois Senate...