Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...votes in one package. With this potent aid, Roy Dunn captured control of the state's 25 delegates, and Boss Dunn even hand-picked six of the seven delegates-at-large. The seventh place, which he left open, fell to U.S. Senator Joe Ball, a loyal Stassenite -who ran behind the Dunnsters. And as the coup de grace, R. C. Radabaugh, Stassen's No. 1 political handy man and state G.O.P. chairman, could get elected to the convention only as an alternate...
...years, Victor Kravchenko was a loyal Russian minor official. He rose to be a voyentechnik (technician) with rank of captain in the Red Army. Suddenly in Manhattan last week he threw over his job-and his Russian citizenship-and placed himself "under the protection of American opinion." He gave his reasons in a letter that sharply rearoused half-forgotten U.S. suspicions of the Soviet...
...their churches on May 21, Congregationalists will sign the 1944 Compact. From all over the U.S. the signed Compacts will go to Grand Rapids, where they will be dedicated during the biennial General Council (June 25). The Compact: "In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, loyal members of Church of do solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together to work for a just and cooperative world order. We pray that our nation shall help to establish an international organization for the bet ter ordering of the interdependent...
Author Hecht begins by explaining that, as a boy (he was raised in New York City and Racine, Wis.), he didn't know that anti-Semitism existed. His Russian-Jewish father was a passionately Americanized Elk, Knight of Pythias, Mason, Modern Woodsman and Loyal Moose. Later he met Jewish writers. But, like himself, they were "Semites far away from Semitism . . . whose only synagogue was Broadway." When he became famous, Ben was outraged if friends mentioned antiSemitism. "I said that it was not Jews who were being discriminated against but obviously individuals too ill-favored for social appeal." Ben filled...
Queen's Choice. Rich, suave, 70-year-old Prince Stirbey was the longtime lover of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, the mortal foe of her moody son, ex-King Carol, the presumed father of her youngest daughter, Ileana.* Now the loyal aging go-between was embarked on one last attempt to save the trembling kingdom for his loved liege's grandson, young King Mihai...