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Most U. S. citizens think of the Dutch in terms of a bonneted little creature who is the scourge of dirt. The rest of the world-particularly the British-think of the Dutch in terms of stubbornness. It was the stubborn Dutch East Indian rubber planters who knocked Britain's Stevenson plan of rubber control into a hat so cocked that all rubber planters have been prostrate ever since. The harder the British bore down on production the faster the Dutchmen planted. But if the Dutch are stubborn the British are dogged and together they produce...
...trouble, as well as a source of transportation, for the United States Army men. More epithets have been directed against those self-willed animals, than against any other unit of cavalry infantry, or artillery. Gradually, the mule became associated, in the minds of the people, with the doughboys: "As stubborn as an Army mule" became a popular slogan. So it wasn't strange that the West Point cadets, when they were looking around for a mascot, chose the mule...
THREE HUMAN BOMBS "The highest and noblest monument of war was erected near Shanghai by the Three Human Bombs at Miaohangchen. At dawn on March 22, 1932, in a general attack on Miaohangchen a certain Japa nese Division, which marched from Woosung, encountered great obstacles through the stubborn resistance of the Chinese troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita...
...sixth round the referee stepped in. He waited for Uzcudun's seconds to wipe enough blood away for Uzcudun to see, then stepped out again. It went on for 15 rounds, the crowd howling for a knockout. But Carnera could neither knock his man down nor knock the stubborn, gold-toothed smile from his bloody face. By the end of the fight the early cheers for "Il Campionissimo" were nearly drowned by hoots, catcalls and loud cries of "Bravo Paulino" for the game loser...
Because it has probably the worst press of any important institution in the U. S., people have long wondered why the New York Stock Exchange did not do something about it. Last week the Stock Exchange did something. But so long and so stubborn has been the Big Board's silence (except in defense of the status quo), that its gesture was greeted not with applause but simply with amazement. For the first time in its 141 years of existence the New York Stock Exchange spoke officially about the price of a listed stock...