Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klotz, which falls due in September, 1929. The only alternative to paying this huge sum in cash is for France to ratify the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, in which all the debts of France to the U. S. are merged and spread over 62 years. Thus far a stubborn French Parliament has refused to ratify-and the standing $400,000,000 bill is another reason why Frenchmen are unsympathetic toward Signer Klotz...
...tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...
...Prime Minister Benito Mussolini; but until last week the order was never enforced. A young or pretty transgressor would experience no more than a gallant pressure upon the arm from a policeman who murmured mellifluently, "Sinistra, Signora." Usually the pressure and the suggestion were ignored by willful females, stubborn males-until last week...
...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...
Bulls called this reaction "corrective," "salutary," "reassuring." But the market's stubborn bears held it an omen of a real break to come. On the same day, Economist Virgil Jordan of the National Industrial Conference Board, spoke Spanish words at the Hotel Astor (Manhattan). He warned: "Prosperity in the present situation is rather a state of mind than a fact. ... It is an illusion created by extraordinary financial conditions, by exceptional activity in production of certain types of goods. . . ." These goods, he noted, included many luxuries, few necessities. He cited depression in industries producing food, clothing, coal, transportation...