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There was no doubt that Wendell Willkie had been read out of an isolationist position he had never held. He was damned for not winning isolationist Republican Congressmen to his view, for thinking of politics as a personal crusade and a fight for ideas. Stubborn as ever, he shook off journalistic and political assaults as he had plowed through the boos and egg-throwing of the campaign. At the annual luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club he said his say on the problem of the party...
...soldiers' greatest problem was the stubborn womankind of Iceland. About the only word of Icelandic they learned was the word for girl, stulka. They would lounge in the streets, calling "Hi, stulka" to every blonde. But they got no response...
...West Point. For a time he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the vague idea of becoming an engineer. The Boltz family business was fine Havana cigars, and in 1914 they sent Robert to work in the family plants in Cuba and Tampa. He was 27, headstrong and stubborn, and he thought he had a new system of cigar making. Two years later the business was busted...
...Stubborn Turks. As Russia goes, so goes Turkey. Turkey would scarcely dare to stand alone. The surprising firmness of Turkey last week may have been an indirect clue to Russia's mood. Just after German Ambassador Franz von Papen returned to Ankara with German "offers," the Turkish Government clamped martial law upon the land, ordered blackouts, revised train schedules, declared restrictions on automobile travel. The Istanbul newspaper Yeni Sabah challenged: "We do not recognize the German right to hand us an ultimatum. Germany can speak to us only as equals...
Harry Cross of the New York Herald Tribune: "The Charles River Power Company rushed into the Bowl and give a demonstration of high voltage football. Yale's defense was stubborn to the point of embarrassing, but the Elis couldn't keep the wires crossed forever. The Blue forwards tried to charge into the Crimson with the same gusto which upset the co-ordination and continuity of Carl Snavely's gridiron chef d'oeuvre, but they were met by an even more determined Harvard forward wall...