Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent the holiday at the Brown manse in Hartford. The Winchester clique ran up to the mountains for their Christmas. Bill Cousins became one of the crowd as he gave Betty a sparkler that means more than just an Xmas gift. Congrats. Poo Poo Jaffa played Santa to his loyal troop of Boy Scouts...
...Pepper protest further served notice on the President that henceforth any Rooseveltian swings to the right would be fought loudly and bitterly by men who are normally his most loyal wish-followers in Congress. These include Pennsylvania's noisy Joe Guffey and Montana's wealthy, leftist James E. Murray. They also count on support from Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill, as well as two freshman Senators-Warren Magnuson of Washington and Brien McMahon of Connecticut. Somewhere in the background was the ambitious C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Even further back...
MacArthur's Communiqués. Europe was not the only place where Army Public Relations had a public-relations problem. From the other great theater of Army operations, communiqués passed along by General MacArthur's loyal press chief, Colonel LeGrande A. Diller, had aroused deep doubts-in the New York Times's military expert, Hanson Baldwin, among others-about the General's accuracy in reporting the facts. A recent communiqué asserted that during the Leyte campaign the enemy had "sustained 82,554 casualties." On the basis of the document itself, that precise-sounding...
This week the Supreme Court of the U.S. unanimously agreed that Citizen Endo -and, by implication, any other loyal Japanese-American-has a right to live where she pleases. Justice Frank Murphy denounced "the unconstitutional resort to racism inherent in the entire evacuation program." But the court, frankly avoiding a tough constitutional issue in wartime, almost contradicted itself...
...almost two years, the right of the Government to shuffle citizens around at will had been a burning constitutional issue. But by the time the Supreme Court ruled this week, the question was academic. Day before, the Army had rescinded its mass evacuation order, told the loyal Japanese and Nisei they could return. Invasion, the Army explained, is no longer "a substantial possibility...