Word: stubbornness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...British Blue Book further shows that in March of this year the Holy See informed His Majesty's Government that they "could not consent to a concordat on Malta so long as Lord Strickland [a Roman Catholic] remained in power." Vexed to the bottom of his stubborn Glasgow soul, Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson made his final reply to Pope Pius XI by withdrawing the British Minister to the Holy See, Henry Getty Chilton...
Five-Year Plan. Quoting official Soviet statistics, Comrade Bron shows in his book that the Five-Year Plan, now in its second year, has more than attained its industrial objectives, has fallen somewhat short in persuading the stubborn Russian peasant to plant as much seed as the Government wishes, to sell it at the price fixed by the Government, and to espouse with proper enthusiasm the Government's program of "collective farms" (TIME. Oct. 21, et seq.). Nevertheless 10,530,000 acres are now under collective cultivation...
...civilized minority holds sway." Mr. Martin is skeptical, not to say suspicious, of the present trend of social organization. "It is precisely because it seems to be necessary to give up so many social liberties in modern industrial society that mankind must guard its personal rights with stubborn vigilance. . . . Resort to legislation should be the very last remedy proposed for the removal of abuse. ... If you would keep your power over yourself, keep it off your neighbor...
Three factors have made private power companies unpopular with a Senate majority: 1) their extensive anonymous propaganda against Government operation, as revealed by the Federal Trade Commission (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.); 2) their stubborn opposition to regulation by the Federal Power Commission (TIME, March 10); 3) the flagrant lobbying against Government operation and in favor of the American Cyanamid bid by the Tennessee River Improvement Association and its onetime head. Claudius Hart Huston, now Republican National Committee Chairman (TIME, March 31). Last week wrote Mark Sullivan, veteran Washington observer: "What it [the Senate's bill] symbolizes...
This criticism agrees exactly with conclusions reached by the MacDonald Government's Trade Mission to South America (TIME, Sept. 23), which has issued a report flaying English manufacturers as too stupid and stubborn to make what South Americans want to buy, and secondly flaying English diplomats as too stiff, superior, condescending and ungracious to be of any use in promoting trade. When this report was about to be issued the office of a worldwide press agency in London received advance copies in time to mail them to South America before the release date, but were absolutely forbidden to mail...