Word: bastion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weird that the United States, billing itself as the last great bastion of democracy, can consistently woo men like Franco. Senator Chan Gurney of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has the answer. The Soviet menace is of such magnitude, he says, that we should let bygones be bygones and accept every one we happen to find on the same side of our military fence. There are other reasons Mr. Gurney fails to mention. Spain is a Catholic country and there will be a large Catholic vote in the coming elections here. Another reason centers...
Oldtime National Guard officers would have none of such heresy. State control of the guard, cried the National Guard Association's 60-year-old Major General Ellard A. Walsh, "is practically the last bastion in the fortress of states' rights." He warned that the politically powerful association would carry the fight to Congress...
Culture's Bastion. "Fred" Allen, 58 years old this week, is a tall (6 ft.), spare (130 lbs.) Bostonian whose modest prayer is that his mind will always be larger than his frame. Fred's father, a Back Bay minister, sent him to Groton (it tasted awful but was good for him, he feels-like milk of magnesia). At Harvard he was on the Lampoon with Cartoonist Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley. Allen landed his first editorial job under Ellery Sedgwick on the Atlantic Monthly, was managing editor of the old Century at only...
Where was elusive Chen Yi headed? Weary Nationalists ticked off some of his possible alternatives. He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow. Or he might plunge toward Suchow, bastion of the Nanking-Shanghai defense area. Or he could drive down to Hankow. He might even decide to stand and fight...
...match the razzle-dazzle politicking of Premier Maurice Duplessis, Quebec's Liberals had to set off some pre-election fireworks of their own. Last week they had the occasion: the soth anniversary of Montreal's Reform Club, bastion of the Liberal Party...