Word: diehardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrounding States motor down through the network of rivers, streams and canals (there is still 50 miles of open sea). Like touring autoists, waterway tourists use road maps (Government charts), obey traffic signals (buoys). They treat sailing vessels as autoists treat pedestrians, park at anchorages instead of garages. Diehard water-gypsies, 100,000 strong, never get off their boats, live on them all year round...
Thus did Communist Browder join a growing chorus of U. S. radicals and liberals who in recent months have forsworn pacifism to espouse preparedness.* Result is that Franklin Roosevelt's Rearmament program now faces little opposition outside Congress save from a few groups of diehard pacifists...
...achievements before the Dail Eireann (lower house). Four days after the pact was signed, the Opposition Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, who has now lost his chief difference with de Valera's party, joined with the Prime Minister's Fianna Fail supporters to vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week to set in motion his machinery for parliamentary approval...
Doing his level best to avoid being branded an intractable Republican diehard, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg recently urged President Roosevelt to seek the item veto-power to strike out individual items in big appropriations bills. Last week in his budget message (see p. 19), without mention of the senior Michigan Senator, President Roosevelt asked for the item-veto power, added with unusual deference to the Constitution: "A respectable difference of opinion exists as to whether . . . item-veto power could be given to the President by legislation or whether a Constitutional amendment would be necessary. I strongly recommend that...
...America that can compare with the London Morning Post. Oldest daily in the British Empire, it was established three years before the American Revolution. Coleridge, Lamb and Wordsworth were among its writers. Imperialist and conservative, it snorted bitterly against any change even in its own party. Alongside this crusty diehard, the New York Herald Tribune might easily be mistaken for the Communist Daily Worker. Sad was the day in plush British drawing rooms when the Morning Post began to limp. After the Depression it reduced its price from twopence to the vulgar level of the penny press in an attempt...