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Franklin Roosevelt smiled and thanked him. The little rotund, stooped, pink-faced, bulldog-jawed Britisher, his visored cap askew over the remnants of sandy yellow hair that once was red, stood beaming, like a deceptively diffident cherub. The tall, easy-mannered American, with a jaw just as stubborn, stood with his huge shoulders thrown back, his head cocked on one side, as it always is when he meets something new and important...
...stubborn Regents carried the case to the Court of Appeals, highest in the State. Last week the judges upheld them, said they could refuse Dr. Marburg his license once & for all. In court, the Regents frankly admitted that they were acting to protect the practices of New York physicians from the competition of refugees, not all of whom are so eminent as Dr. Marburg nor so scrupulous about how they get business. The Regents did not bring up the point that there is a great shortage of neurologists and psychiatrists...
...Vanderbilt Clinic, and from reports of the same treatment throughout the U.S., Dr. Elsbach has observed the reactions of 75 patients of all ages. Results: 53 cases were cured, 21 improved; only one stubborn patient kept on sneezing...
...know that, at times, I am stubborn and refuse to listen to reason, that I am impertinent, and that I deliberately disobey simply because I resent the authority which imposes the rules, regulations, and minor penalties upon me. However, there must be other effective means of punishment than making me down my pants and cross the parental knee. After all, a 15-year-old girl is too old to spank...
Parliamentary circles were angrily agog with suspicion that the obsolete and stubborn 1914 military mentality was still in charge at G.H.Q. and that it had been getting a romantic gilding from the eloquence of Winston Churchill. Military Historian Liddell Hart, whose theories of defensive warfare were blasted by Adolf Hitler's Blitzkrieg tactics, broke his recent silence long enough to remark that the British people's hearts of oak were being betrayed by their leaders' oaken heads...