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...price when Silver Purchase Act was signed in 1934; Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's estimated need for $11,000,000,000 in new and refunding money in the next 17 months; the resignation of T. Jefferson Coolidge as Undersecretary of the Treasury (see p. 15). 2) The stubborn determination of large numbers of businessmen to view an approach to prosperity as something incredible...
...pack. Secretary Ickes publicly snarled through his clean fangs at NRAdministrator Johnson, WPAdministrator Hopkins, onetime Housing Administrator Moffett, many another member of the Roosevelt pack. But, devoted as he was to the New Deal, Lone Wolf Ickes really meant to be helpful to the Administration in his own slow, stubborn...
...Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much. If a worker is shown by the so-called "means test" to have more than an absolute minimum of income he cannot draw dole payments from the State. Year after year Jock...
...ingratiated himself with the wealthy Bingham and Baring families, married a 15-year-old Bingham heiress, received ?5,000 cash and ?500 yearly to divorce her. With more modern figures, Ellis is less successful. Obviously disliking Proust, obviously repelled by Proust's mysterious masterpiece, he makes a stubborn attempt to evaluate the work and analyze its author, does not seem to grasp their significance in terms of contemporary literature and thought. Yet the note of benign humor that runs through all Ellis' work is also evident in From Rousseau to Proust. Quoting a line from Restif...
...over questions of theory, is accused by his biographer of having been unjust to both men. Outliving his wife, all but two of his children and most of his rival revolutionaries, Marx continued his work until his death in 1883, habitually worked from nine in the morning until midnight. Stubborn, proud, quick-tempered, the one stable relationship in his life, aside from his family, was his friendship with Engels. Their only quarrel came when Engels' Irish mistress died. Hurt because Frau Marx had not written to express her sympathy, Engels was offended at Marx's formal note. Never...