Word: diehardism
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President Douglas, famed as an anti-union employer, bore all this philosophically. Commented one top unionist: "I think he's pretty cool but . . . he'll not be a diehard. I think we'll find him very fair." The pottery skunk on Douglas' desk, at which he used to point when speaking of unions (TIME, Nov. 22), has been chucked into a basket, along with other trinkets, while his office is being remodeled...
...hold the line on inflation. In nearly 100, excellently clear WLB decisions (he wrote the Little Steel formula) he has favored neither labor nor management, hewing a straight line down the middle, largely in the public interest. In the final showdown with John Lewis, Morse was the unreconstructed diehard who stood firm against John's pay grab. All the U.S. will watch his campaign with interest...
Perhaps in the familiar echoing halls of the Palazzo Venezia he had summoned his cabinet and the tough, diehard party bosses, such men as Roberto Farinacci and Carlo Scorza, for a final tempestuous session. Then, perhaps, he had conferred with the King and Marshal Badoglio. One fact stood out: the Fascist Grand Council met the day before the resignation, its first meeting since Italy entered the war. Mussolini, the wily politician who had made just one big. but fatal, mistake in his fustian career, might hope that lip service to legality would pay him. One unkind rumor had him relinquishing...
Died. The Rev. Michael ("The Big Fellow") O'Flanagan, 65, towering one-time leader of the Sinn Feiners; in Dublin. A teacher, historian, lecturer, he was acting Sinn Fein leader during Eamon de Valera's imprisonment in "The Trouble" of 1916-21. Diehard Anglophobe and fiery money-raiser in the U.S., O'Flanagan attacked the Irish bishops for allegedly using their offices to thwart full freedom, was thrice suspended from the priesthood...
...Metapolitics" contains a summary of all of Viereck's views on Nazlism. It also is a seeming paradox, since it contains those sentiments of diehard opposition to totalitarian principles one would least expect from a man of his parentage. But Viereck has led a very individual life...