Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then loyal Majority Leader Alben Barkley got busy. He tried to avoid the issue, but his move to recommit the bill to committee for "further study" was beaten. The Senate was ready to argue the bill on its merits. And when it came to merits, the proposal to draft strikers into the Army was soundly beaten, 70-to-13. Senator Taft's first lone cry had grown to a chorus...
...Paris, too, Secretary Daniels saw the beginnings of the "sabotaging [of] world peace" by Wilson's opponents. Intensely loyal to his old chief ("the easiest man to comprehend . . . utterly frank and genuine"), he bowls over Wilson's opponents and disaffected friends one by one, from Henry Cabot Lodge and George Harvey to Secretary of State Lansing and the mysterious Colonel House. Said Wilson once: "I have reached the conclusion that [Ambassador] Walter [Hines] Page is the damndest fool we ever appointed. Don't you agree?" His Navy Secretary shook his head...
...Like the loyal Westchester and Long Island commuters who would not think of boarding their homebound trains without it, the old (112 years) New York Sun dresses conservatively, does its huffing & puffing in genteel tones, and ordinarily abhors the idea of making a scene. It seldom surprises its small (circ. 294,000) clientele, many of whom consider the independent Democratic New York Times unforgivably radical (the Times supported Roosevelt...
...believed in China for the Chinese, in the supremacy of the Kuomintang. He was unflaggingly loyal to Chiang. "I am," he once said, "the Generalissimo's Tai Li and nothing more." When he heard the news of his man's death, the Generalissimo wept...
Everybody took sides-bartenders, bus collectors and urchins were loyal Oxonians or Cantabrigians for the day. The experts had made Cambridge's heavy crew a top-heavy favorite until Oxford's eight reached the river. The Oxonians, who averaged a puny 154 pounds a month ago (TIME, March 4), had put on 12 pounds a man on powdered eggs and porridge, and their stroke was clean and precise. By race time, the odds were even...