Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Lathrop and Mrs. Jones were thus treated in just about the same way as were Chinese troops of the 2Qth Army commanded by Peiping General Sung Cheh-yuan this week. Japanese Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki grew tired of what seemed to him the stubborn slowness of Chinese forces to yield to his demands that they clear out of North China (TIME, July 26). In an action which Japanese officials described as "maintaining prestige," General Kazuki had Japanese airmen heavily bomb Langfang, a station between Peiping and Tientsin on the railway from which area he was insisting that the Chinese...
...artillery to Peiping's Chengyang Gate. The outer gate opened and in rushed about 250 Japanese. Suddenly the outer gate closed, trapping the Japanese between the outer and inner gates and the Chinese flung hand grenades among the trapped. With Japan roaring at this "treachery" and China as stubborn as ever there loomed this week the threat of fair-sized war in North China...
...Supreme Court; in Berlin. At the end of the World War, Dr. Simons was director of the Legal Department of the German Foreign Office. He went to the Peace Conference at Versailles as Commissioner-General, resigned a week before the treaty was signed, thereafter became one of its most stubborn opponents...
...this oblique fashion was announced the biggest news emanating from Washington in many a week. It meant that Franklin Roosevelt, after four months' stubborn insistence on his original plan for enlarging the Court, was at last willing to compromise...
Less unrealistic than it seemed, Schmeling's stubborn conduct had a purpose: to force the New York State Athletic Commission, whose function it is to give prize fighting an air of respectability, to award him the title by default. Last week, when Schmeling went from Speculator to Manhattan to weigh in at the Athletic Commission offices for the phantom fight, his hopes were disappointed. Instead of awarding the title to Schmeling, the Commission merely voted to fine Braddock and his manager $1,000 each, suspend the champion for an indefinite period. In such a rage that a scheduled radio...