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...indispensable. Early the following year he was sent back again as head of a special mission, to establish unofficial relations with the Bolsheviks. His job: "to do as much harm to the Germans as possible, to put a spoke in the wheels of the separate peace negotiations, and to stiffen ... the Bolshevik resistance to German demands." His complicated and delicate job was made harder by the muddled policy of his own government. "There was no British policy, unless seven different policies at once can be called a policy...
...action served to stiffen rail bond prices, give rail stocks a gentle fillip. Pennsylvania was reported ready to bolt the merger plan rather than suffer exile from New England. Big Four executives called a meeting for this week to determine their next step. But bets were that the Depression, which had brought Pennsylvania's Atterbury, B. & O.'s Willard, New York Central's Crowley* and C. & O.'s Bernet together, would be over before every passenger coach and freight car in the East bears the name of one of their systems...
Curious onlookers and a special detail of police watched the B. E. F. drill, wondering if the new regime would stiffen or crack the B. E. F.'s morale, wondering why the men hung on anyhow, hoping for an impossible cash Bonus settlement from a Congress which had already denied it. Characteristic of the whole perverse, stolid affair was the new camp watchword: "Stick...
Recent events have tended to stiffen the hostility of the country toward foreign entanglements of any kind. At the same time there is a growing consciousness that some sort of cooperation between nations is needed in the current economic difficulties. Of all the candidates now in the field, Mr. Baker, both by character and by experience is best qualified to make the necessary contacts to that end. His wartime position brought him into relation with the chief leaders of modern Europe. Moreover, through his former connection with Woodrow Wilson, he is associated with the most-far-sighted political vision...
...heard that the town council was thinking of routing intercity busses down his and other residential streets. He came to protest. He appealed for the preservation of "the beauty, tranquillity and safety of Princeton, the most beautiful college town in America, as beautiful as any in England. . . . Why not stiffen our backs and protest . . . ? We want this old town kept as an example of what an American college town...