Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...savants and social leaders to her feet and keeps her memory hallowed by the 50,000-odd Theosophists scattered around the world. What she had and how she used it is expertly told in a new biography, Priestess of the Occult, by ex-journalist Gertrude Marvin Williams (Knopf; $3.50). Loyal Theosophists will wince at this well-documented story of the Society's origins...
...would be for Senator from California. The Democrats were acting as if the unseating of 38-year-old Republican William F. Knowland was the most important thing they had to do. To California went two of Harry Truman's Cabinet-Clinton Anderson and Cap Krug-and his ever-loyal Senator Alben Barkley. And Henry Wallace went too. They said their pieces for Will Rogers Jr. and other Democrats-while Will carefully ducked having his picture taken with Henry Wallace...
Marching out of Princeton came three British regiments of foot, gleaming in scarlet and gold. These were no mercenaries, like the Hessians beaten at Trenton; these were seasoned and loyal troops. From a striking force of perhaps 2,500 men, Washington detached a skeleton brigade led by General Hugh Mercer to destroy the bridge over Stony Brook. But it was too late. The British regulars shattered and scattered the raw American irregulars, gave Mercer a fatal wound. His panicked men infected Washington's main body...
...balance. But Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, after making his calculations, said: "There will be a deficit of $1.9 billion." Last week at his press conference Mr. Truman said crisply that there was no real difference between Mr. Snyder and himself. Snyder must have been misquoted. Said loyal John Snyder: "President Truman said there was no difference between us. I reiterate that statement...
...something to see. In Yale's Bowl, filled (except for a few seats) for the first time since 1937, about 65,000 sat through drizzle and downpour and gave their loudest, longest cheers to a Negro fullback. At South Bend, 55,452 swarmed over the town-including many loyal Notre Dame buffs who had never got beyond high school but would travel hundreds of miles to see "their team." Said one from Massachusetts: "Looks like the old days, only more...