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...algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over him, is mild, puny, deep-voiced and bashful; he has peanut-sized biceps, and looks wan. Any critical Southern mammy would describe him as "peaked." He is also lionhearted, stubborn, iron-nerved, grimly determined, and a hero...
...This will introduce Richard Tewkesbury, a reckless stubborn young American who is ambitious to make the trip overland from the Canal to Colombia. I urge you to dissuade him from this mad adventure. If, however, he will not be discouraged, will you please give him such assistance as you reasonably...
After years of stubborn rebuff, C.I.O. had succeeded in getting a signed contract in a Bethlehem Steel plant (through its affiliated Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers). It had signed up Westinghouse for the first time on a nationwide basis. Where would labor, angrily watched by its enemies, anxiously watched by its friends, head during the next few months? On good industrial relations depended the defense program. Labor still maintained its right to strike, it still struck (seep...
...Despite the evidence supplied by Third Cousin Gordon Ickes, stubborn Harold remains unconvinced that the coat of arms (see cut] is his own. The International Heraldic Institute's letter to Gordon Ickes states that the name Ickes is found in ancient records under various forms-Icke, Ike, Icken, Iken, Ihk, Ihken, Itzken, Itken, Ickel, Ickels, Ickes-and that these are all to be found in Heintze-Cascorbi's Die Deutschen Familiennamen, Berlin, 1933. The upper half of the shield is silver with a gold crescent on the breast of the black "demi eagle." The lower half...
...Greek General Tsolakoglou capitulated to the Germans. But either the Germans did not tell the Italians, or Mussolini, anxious to win his own capitulation, did not tell his people. So Mussolini, who had vowed "to crush the kidneys" of the Greeks, went right on hurling his soldiers against the stubborn Greek wall, until he had lost 6,000 men. On Wednesday, April 23, when the Greek situation was clearly hopeless, General Tsolakoglou finally surrendered to the Italians...