Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trivial Items," It was an impressive performance. Iowa's Hickenlooper looked a little sheepish. He pulled a statement from his pocket and read it. It was not the activities of AEC's zealous and loyal helpers to which he objected but Lilienthal's administrative policies. He ended: "At this time I am not prepared to present my case in an orderly fashion. But I will in a few days...
Four years later, Franklin Roosevelt remembered helpful Louis Johnson, the loyal Legionnaire, with an appointment as Assistant Secretary...
...thing, Matthews was a loyal member of the party. He had helped draft the President's civil rights program, and at the Philadelphia convention he firmly whipped the Nebraska delegation back into line when some of its members wanted to desert Truman. The President, accepting Louis Johnson's man, sent his nomination to the Senate, on the same day he sent up the names of Gordon Gray, 39-year-old Assistant Secretary of the Army, to be Under Secretary of the Army, and California's easygoing Dan Kimball, to be promoted from Assistant to Under Secretary...
...have been in a good many of these bunkers and lagers, doing welfare work, and the conditions are indeed appalling. But the inhabitants are in most cases not Germans. They are ethnic Germans, Volksdeutsch, expellees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, etc. Loyal to Germany during the war, they have been repaid for this loyalty by being herded into bunkers and lagers in filth and misery...
...since then the outlines of party purity have been blurred; in the matter of political spoils there are two schools of thought. One, led by bulky Bill Boyle, the Democrats' executive vice chairman, wants the rewards to go to the local leaders in each state who have been loyal through & through. The other is led by McGrath, who is worried about getting the Truman program through Congress, and wants to reward at least the milder Dixiecrats: Harry Truman needs their votes in Congress. Last week the two factions took their problems to the White House, accompanied by Vice President...