Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last coal strike was active from May until November, 1926. In it, many a head was bashed but few shots were fired. But at no time did police or soldiers line up and fire upon marching strikers. At no time did the strikers provoke organized police gunfire by stubborn demonstrations, armed or unarmed...
Last week stubborn, tenacious Dr. Gessler suddenly transmitted to President Paul von Hindenburg his resignation, giving as his reasons, "my ill health and the effects of a personal blow of Fate." Deeply concerned, old Paul von Hindenburg kept the resignation secret for two days, conveyed to Dr. Gessler the hope and the sincere wish that he would reconsider...
Although the Cosgrave Government is now solidly in power it is menaced by the stubborn faction of famed Eamon de Valera. He collected campaign funds of $150,000 for the last Irish Free State election (TIME, Oct. 24), raising $5,000 in Ireland and $145.000 in the U. S. and Australia. Mr. de Valera is now in the U. S., again soliciting campaign funds; and it is to checkmate him that President Cosgrave comes to the U. S.?however loudly he may protest that his mission is "non-political...
...four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland, who preceded Pilsudski to Geneva. The Council had even laid down provisional terms of settlement?terms not wholly agreed to by stubborn Prime Minister Valdemaras...
...just doesn't know the first thing about it. At best, the church is standing still. In a growing community like Douglaston we need a live wire. We tried to play ball on this proposition. We offered to take care of him for 18 months. But he became stubborn, showing his inability to realize what is best for the church." The pastor then told why he clung to the little white church where he had preached for the past ten years. "I am unwilling to accept dismissal at the hands of the vestry," he said. "I believe that...