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...break the Lords' veto was for the King to appoint (or threaten to appoint) sufficient new Peers pledged to pass the bill to outnumber the Lords who were opposed. The Commons were legally impotent to force George V to take this step. A rash King, or a stubborn or a mad, might have stood against his Commons, and blocked progressive legislation for years. Wise King-Emperor George V decided to break the deadlock, did it by threatening the Lords, and has ever since risen steadily in the affection of his people...
...Merging U. S. oil companies will include Sinclair Consolidated. Potent in the amalgamation will be the Cutten interests, represented in Manhattan by Nephew R. E. Cutten, trader for E. F. Hutton & Co. The new company, brokers heard, will not bear Sinclair's oilscandalous name. ¶ Stubborn bears drew little comfort from last week's market. They could only pin hopes on bearish theory...
...forced the Crimson to take the defensive deep in their own territory early in the game. But a counter-attack due largely to the superb broken field play of F.J. Gilligan '32, brought the wall to the Blue one-foot line at the opening of the second period. A stubborn Eli defense resisted and took the ball on cowns. A second time a vicious assault in which Gilligan figured prominently carried the ball to the three-yard line, where the Yale forward wall again held firm...
Thus, the Hoover market. Like its predecessor, the much-loved, much-criticized Coolidge market, it is the joy of bulls, despair of bears. Will it last? Will it break? Foolish bulls or stubborn bears...
...revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their cause is irretrievably lost on all counts; but still they struggle quixotically on-and are covertly approved and supported by many a rich and Roman...