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...middle 50's, Norman Brookes still plays formidable tennis. Last winter he teamed with Vines in a doubles match against Gledhill and Gerald Patterson, whose victory at Wimbledon in 1922 was the last by a British subject until Crawford's this year. Brookes's stubborn ambition to bring the Davis Cup back to Australia had something to do with the tour that gave Crawford and his confreres a chance to play at home against Vines, Gledhill. Van Ryn and Allison last winter. As good-humored as Brookes is taciturn, Crawford commented chipperly when Editor Wallis Merrihew...
When Mickey Walker retired as middle-weight champion, his title went, after an elimination tournament last winter, to a lean, stubborn, hard-muscled New Yorker named Ben Jeby, who in all his fights showed much more courage than finesse. Last week in New York Jeby had his first chance to defend his championship against a really high-grade opponent. Barrel-chested Lou Brouillard, of Worcester, Mass., much the same type fighter except that he is lefthanded, came running out of his corner in the first round and planted two lefts on a chin that Jeby's previous opponents have...
...mills. A. F. F. F. H. W. is an alert, enlightened union under smart leadership. During the Depression its members voluntarily took cuts in wages to help "closed shop" employers meet "open shop" competition (FORTUNE, January 1932). But now it was up against one of the most stubborn groups of "open shop" employers in a stubbornly "open shop" State. At Reading thousands of hosiery strikers peacefully closed half the city's mills. In Philadelphia 2,000 strikers stormed the Walburton Hosiery plant. Near Bristol the Blue Moon Silk Hosiery Co. was having similar labor troubles. In the face...
...been embarrassed by the dam of sound appraisal he so carefully built up. It may be that what he took for senile decadence in the political and literary life of world, especially of America, represents only the growing-pains of a new adolescence. But he would have been a stubborn man indeed who would have argued with Professor when he held up to view the questionable foundations of post-war intellect or when he unyieldingly declined to excuse some of the world's great poets for the weaknesses of their philosophies and for their moral failings. For him the world...
This, however, does not mean that our delegates sailed knowing in advance that they were going to refuse stabilization. The attitude which they are now stubborn in seems rather to be a sudden shift caused in part by the unexpected results of recent measure. It is difficult to understand why the President should not accept the offer of gold-standard countries who wish to secure our money at the same rate we are waiting for, and why the Federal Reserve is tacitly encouraged to operate in foreign exchange to support the dollar when it obviously cannot influence the franc...