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...Thirty-Second President emerged from the campaign fog as a vigorous well-intentioned gentleman of good birth and breeding who had large hopes for improving his country by ordinary political processes. If he lacked crusading convictions, he was at least free from his predecessor's stubborn pride of opinion. One week after his election he seemed destined to give the U. S. the kind of administration it thought it wanted rather than the kind he thought it ought to have. No section had a right to dictate to him. to demand favors. The South? He could have won easily without...
Twice backed up to within four yards of their own goal line, the Harvard eleven showed a stubborn resistance which was so completely shattered last week, and thereby indicated that, in spite of several second and third string substitutions, it still had at its command the power to withstand attack when not rattled. As conspicuous as this new line defense was, a forward-pass defense, which has not been seen in the Stadium this year, rendered the Holy Cross passes incomplete 18 times, and five times prevented the Crusaders from scoring...
...exceedingly jealous of her ships & sailors-world's largest merchant marine. And Britain's shipping tycoons are jealous of their individual companies. Though big lines in Italy. Germany, Japan and the U. S. have pocketed their pride and combined for economy (TIME, Nov. 7), Liverpool's stubborn operators are still fighting it out from Land's End to Sandy Hook, from Manchester to Sunda Strait. Last week what observers thought was a step toward a truce was taken when Frederick William Lewis Lord Essendon, 62-year-old chairman of Furness, Withy & Co., was elected head...
...Stubborn as King Canute, defiant as Joshua, brave as Horatius he stood there a true son of the-British bulldog. The Brighton Express roared down at him 50 m.p.h., came to a halt with great screaming of brakes. Out tumbled the engineer, pale beneath the grease on his face...
...Pacific Coast Conference record. 27 to o. It was too early to guess what Princeton's new coach, Herbert Orrin Crisler, can do with the remnants of the team whose record last season was the sorriest in Princeton history, but his start?22 to 0 against slow but stubborn Amherst? was a good day for two seasoned backs. Jack James and Millard Draudt, and one new one. Tom Johnston, who intercepted a pass and made the longest run of the game?65 yards...