Word: diehardism
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...After a bitter parliamentary fight, the General Assembly voted 53-24 to seat President Joseph Kasavubu as the legal representative of the Congo, overriding the diehard minority of Afro-Asians who still support his bitter rival, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba...
...this crazy campaign," said Charles von Fremd of CBS News at 5 A.M. Wednesday. The press headquarters at the Hyannis National Guard Armory was nearly deserted; most newspapermen had gone off for a couple of hours of sleep, leaving the scene to the television network men and a few diehard writers like Murray Kempton of the New York Post...
...truck with the Democratic platform, especially its hateful civil rights plank. In Tallahassee, Farris Bryant, the Democratic candidate for Governor (and, in effect, Governor-elect) reached the same split decision, gave Jack Kennedy a grudging nod while deploring the "repugnant" civil rights program. In Washington, the grey eminence of diehard Dixiecracy. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. ¶During the farewells on his departure from the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge received a cable from Rome informing him that the Knights of Maltat had awarded...
This is one diehard Calvinist who's voting for a good Christian Catholic over a hypocritical Protestant...
...Governors' conference in Glacier National Park, when Texas Governor Price Daniel tried to call a meeting of Southern Governors at which, presumably, the Southerners would declare their eternal support for Johnson. In a canvass of the Governors, Daniel got a couple of shockers: Mississippi's diehard segregationist Ross Barnett refused to guarantee his delegation for Johnson, because Johnson had pushed through the 1960 civil rights bill. Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins advised Daniel that his state was not solid for Lyndon; North Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana, among others, registered the same point. Finally, Daniel called...