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...toot-&-boom of brass bands, Republican doctors worked feverishly over the moribund GOP in Cleveland, June 1936. The patient stirred briefly, collapsed in November. Dreary days followed for the Republican Party. The little flicker of life wavered, almost went out. Yet up-&-down the land plodded one yea-saying, stubborn prophet, preaching Principles, an old-fashioned sermon that was drowned out in the pounding, recurrent crescendos of New Deal swing music...
...Japan's solicitude for a fellow race being plundered by alien powers. But the worst mistake the U. S. made was to think that by penalizing Japan (by abrogating her trade treaty-TIME, Feb. 5 et seq.) she could change Japan's silky beliefs and stubborn course...
...with the bombings came the firehose attacks, stubborn onslaughts that were wasteful of men and materials alike. From Petsamo in the far north (where the Russians tried and failed to push on to Hoyhenjarvi) down through the Salla and Suomussalmi sectors (where the Finns stopped them before they got going) and the new front at Kuhmo (where the Finns beat them back with heavy losses) to the shores of Lake Laatokka and the Karelian Isthmus, the Russians attacked simultaneously. The Finns were in their tightest spot since the war began...
Typical of these stubborn independents is the Moore Telephone System of Caro, Mich. (pop. 2,554). Its 1,500 subscribers, scattered through three farming counties of the sparse Thumb District, pay $2.50 a month for a twelve-party country line, $3.75 monthly for unlimited service in town. For a $5 fee the company will call all of its subscribers, give them any merchant's sales talk. Its 15 "centrals" are pals with their customers, keep them in touch with local gossip. Subscribers grouse at the service and complain that the *Of the rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual...
...This stubborn, honest, liberal journalist pulled no punches in his book, as witness...