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...After protracted argument and the citation of many an authority, the stubborn editor responsible for this grammatical crime admits it, feels...
...great U.S. foot-&-mouth epidemics, in 1914 and 1924, made John Mohler a hated man among many U.S. farmers. A man of stubborn faith, he argued that the only way to get rid of an epidemic is to stamp it out. When farmers came to hear his case, he first made them bathe their feet in disinfectant. His doctor's tools were trench-digging machines and rifles, crowbars and pickaxes, vats of formaldehyde and carloads of quicklime. His white-suited crews moved across the country, singling out the infected herds. Wherever there was a cow with ropy spittle, dollar...
News Bureau or Else. Washington newsmen wondered how stubborn Frank Gannett came to hire deceptively cherubic Cecil Dickson. The facts: at their first meeting Dickson, mindful of the arch-Republican Gannett slant, growled: "If you want to make a political bureau out of a news bureau, you had just as well not open it, and you had better look for another bureau manager. I'm not a Republican. I'm a real Jeffersonian Democrat. But I'm a newsman, nothing else . . . and if I take over any news bureau, it's going to be a news...
When Congress recessed, she summed up its work, dealing out pats and lumps as she saw fit. Said she: "An intransigent, unyielding, bitter-end Congress ... is confronted by an equally stubborn, unbending, unmollifying Chief Executive. . . . Members of Congress are going home for nine weeks to the grass roots. . . . One hopes that the well-manicured lawns around Hyde Park will also serve the President well this summer-as grass roots...
...revolt of Martinique's tiny army garrison, capping the U.S. blockade, forced Admiral Robert to capitulate, swung the island into the United Nations camp. For three stubborn years goateed Georges Robert had ruled as a sybaritic despot. He had screamed at his underlings, plucked roses in his garden, aired his Anglophobia, played the island's strategic position, idle warships and hoarded gold against U.S. pressure. Now he refused utterly to deal with the Committee of Liberation. Said Henri Hoppenot: the Admiral was in a "tragic frame of mind . . . suffering from a Messianic complex and retaining a fanatic loyalty...