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...Smoot attitude seemed to many an observer to coincide remarkably with President Hoover's. Only the President's bitterest critics credit him with having been simple-minded or stubborn enough not to realize that Washington, with wet Maryland adjacent and the broad Potomac handy, is one of the easiest places in the U. S. to buy liquor. And only the fanatically Dry have failed to appreciate the sense of the Hoover policy on Prohibition, sharply announced soon after Inauguration (TIME, March 11). The gist of that policy was: "No more crusades...
...Empire at a conference of the great powers. Particularly last week it was advisable for Mr. MacDonald to show himself the broad, humanitarian champion of peace that he has always been. The Latin powers were in a huff, galled by their defeat at The Hague by Britain's stubborn, ungracious Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (see col. 2). The French especially were furious. Therefore, on his way to Geneva, last week, astute Scot MacDonald stopped off at Paris with his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel, to pay a tactful, friendly little call on French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, just...
...deft nurse, an adoring confidante, a ?staunch political helpmate is Mrs. Philip Snowden. From the first she told correspondents at The Hague that her husband would get his way. When they doubted she said simply, "I guess you just don't know how strong and stubborn a Yorkshireman...
...vain. The reactionary country folk of Norway whose representatives dominate the Storthing are bent on restoring the almost prehistoric names by which Norwegian cities were called before the fatherland came under the rule of Danish and later Swedish kings, from which it emerged independent only in 1905. Stubborn zealots, the Norwegian rival Deputies changed the Danish name of Norway's capital, "Christiania," to "Oslo." Having changed Trondhjem to Nidaros, they now contemplate changing the names of two of Norway's major ports, Bergen and Christiansund. to "Björgvin" and "Fosna...
...stubborn Charles XII of Sweden gave up hope of beating Russia's huge black-haired Peter the Great, signed the Peace of Nystad. Among lands ceded to Russia at that time, was flat marshy Dagö Island at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, not far from St. Petersburg itself. Twenty years before, Dagö Island had been colonized by good industrious Swedes who fished in the Gulf and made hay on the salt marshes. In 1787, Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep...