Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallace, if he was to be believed-and his loyal followers believed him to the hilt-was not aware that this capture had taken place. The U.S. people, most of whom would vote as Republicans or Democrats in November, were not sure, watching Wallace's political sideshow, just what to make of him. Was he a liberal-or a lollipop? Was he Sir Galahad or, as Westbrook Pegler has savagely dubbed him, an old Bubblehead? Was he a true prophet or a sinister Pied Piper...
Wallace became one of F.D.R.'s favorites and, in 1940, his Vice President. The real New Deal was already over. F.D.R., preparing for war, was turning to the right. He saw in Wallace a man who could help him keep the far left loyal to the Democratic Party. He sent him on missions to Central America and China and made his name known the world over...
...inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which had to take off by dropping 1,000 feet over a precipice...
Hybrid Corn. Through all these preliminary maneuverings, the man who developed hybrid corn sat in his hotel room, holding court, conferring with his loyal campaign manager, C.B. ("Beany") Baldwin, an old associate from Department of Agriculture days. It was doubtful whether Wallace ever knew for sure just what was going on. It was even more doubtful if the delegates knew...
...Dublin, the greenish, 3½-ton statue of Queen Victoria which has aroused Irish ire for 41 years (TIME, July 12), was finally removed to a Kilmainham storehouse (along with the plaque inscribed from the Queen's loyal "Irish subjects") to make room for a parking...