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...florid, square-jawed Irishman, easygoing, stubborn, hot-tempered and prodigiously energetic, Cochrane's success as a manager is as hard to analyze as it is apparent. He makes no parade of the thinking processes which it takes to run a big-league ball club but if he is never seen like Connie Mack waving intricately scrawled scorecards, it does not mean that the moves of a baseball game are not as definitely outlined in his mind as those of a chess game in the brain of a blindfolded expert. His players like him because he discusses plans, theories...
While the British Admiralty prepared to tuck away its Home Fleet in the safety of Milford Haven, the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, stubborn "Old George" Lansbury, 76, explained last week the aggressive Pacifism which caused him to threaten to resign as Labor Party Leader when the proletarian Socialists of British Labor's Trades Union Congress fortnight ago urged war if necessary to restrain Fascist Italy. Never a militant trade unionist, Mr. Lansbury warned Laborites last week at Dumfries: "War, either by the League against aggressor or by one State against another would leave the world more unsettled...
...more accomplished and pro fessional of the two books, The Stars Look Down revolves around the career of David Fenwick, whose father and brother died in a flood in Richard Barras' mine. Serious, stubborn, long-faced, intelligent, David won a scholarship, was the first of his family to escape Sleescale, where deep and ancient mines reached out under the sea. His father, who knew that the cutting was dangerous, had led an unsuccessful strike in an effort to compel the adoption of precautionary measures. The most remarkable incident in The Stars Look Down, and a powerful piece of writing...
Explaining Grant's stubborn friendship with gross and clumsy thieves on the familiar "blind spot" theory, Dr. Hesseltine notes that the President was so conscious of his years of business failures that he considered any man who could make a little money as the possessor of vast and mysterious gifts. But Grant's blind spot seems to have been singularly elastic, now large and now small, now enabling him to see through the most ingenious maneuvers of his enemies and now permitting him to adhere to men like Babcock, his confidential secretary, who "fished for gold in every stinking cesspool...
...team of 1908, Harold Stanley took a turn at banking, later entered J. G. White & Co., big utility engineering and financing concern. In 1915 he shifted to Guaranty Trust Co., was president of its security affiliate by the time Mr. Morgan was ready for him. Brilliant, reserved, athletic and stubborn, he lives quietly in suburban Greenwich, Conn...