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...book should convince the most stubborn mind, but apparently it has not convinced him. In his interview he seems to be trying to unconvince those of us who have our minds made...
...which Joseph Stalin has not altogether had his way. Stubborn, the Mongols have gradually talked their Russian patrons out of many Communist innovations unsuited to such nomads as themselves. Today Urga is emphatically the capital of Outer Mongolia, not a mere dependency of Moscow. Mongol Premier Gendun, while he was Dictator Stalin's guest, drove a friendly bargain in Moscow but a bargain definitely to Outer Mongolia's advantage. But for the Russian arms, Russian machine guns and Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon...
...Senate Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources, Nevada's Key Pittman sagely observed: "We of the legislative branch of the Government feel the necessity for support, moral and sentimental, of our constituents in every matter." Darling & friends scurried through corridors, in & out of bedrooms, buttonholing stubborn delegates, arguing the cause of union...
Storm Jameson has a stubborn Yorkshire temper. When she gets mad, she gets good & mad. She was horrified by the War, and when she began to realize it was probably not the last great war she would have to live through, her anger began to grow. What she felt about the situation and its prospects she told in the angriest book she has written. No Time Like the Present (TIME, June 26, 1933). Since then, the world situation has hardly changed for the better, and Storm Jameson's horrified anger has hardly cooled. Last summer it was still...
Leon was an ineffectual innocent, but Uncle Elie was bad. From sheer stubborn laziness he had given up a promising career. When Leon's mother (with whom he boarded as long as she lived), had moved her establishment, Uncle Elie had stopped going to his lectures at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, because it would have meant spending an hour a day in the bus. He had effectively broken up Leon's prospective marriage by writing an anonymous letter falsely accusing Leon of being the father of several illegitimate children. When he went to see the family lawyer...