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...bonds of 12 to 14 years maturity. But Mr. Morgenthau, breathing heavily, stuck to his old cheap-money theory, fighting the war boom as he had fought the depression. His program "to finance this war in the seven-to-ten-year range at 2%" was denounced as "stubborn amateurishness." His reason (labeled as "eyewash"): "to save this and future generations many millions of dollars on the public debt...
...French Caribbean island, cagey, white-goateed Admiral Georges Robert, had asked the U.S. "to fix the terms" for a change in the island's authority. To Martinique for negotiations hurried U.S. Vice Admiral John H. Hoover, commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier. After three years of jealous, stubborn defiance, cantankerous Robert seemed ready to turn over his tiny domain, with its gold, its barnacled ships and its rebellious, starving inhabitants, to the rule of the Committee of Liberation in North Africa...
...warfare, tore into the Japs, killing 100. Boston medium bombers thundered low over the retreating enemy. After five days of scattered fighting the score of Jap casualties was 204. Planes continued to roar overhead daily, blasting supply dumps of an enemy whose supplies had long been bone-thin, strafing stubborn units which still persisted in helpless defense...
...artillery lieutenant (V.M.I.-educated, Fort Sill-trained) had started to stump Ecuador in opposition to administration candidates for Congress. Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border into Colombia. On March 5 he strode into Quito's central police headquarters, demanded a trial. Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda. On May 23 President Arroyo del Rio ordered the disconsolate...
...Stubborn, proud, prejudiced, Kaltenborn nevertheless has stuck to the tradition of free speech and made it stick. More powerful pressure groups have tried to run him off the air than have attacked any other commentator. He has beaten all of them, including America First, which had his sponsor (Purol) on the ropes with their anti-interventionist mail. He has insisted on saying what he wanted to, and his audience (about 10,000,000) has forgiven his mistakes and gone on listening. His long-range batting average is pretty good...