Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrible amount of advice. The phones had been ringing for four days. Three calls were already awaiting him when he reached his office the morning after Senator Van Nuys's death. Shortly the telegrams started coming. The man for the post was the Supreme Governor of the Loyal Order of Moose. The man for the post was the State Democratic Chairman. The woman for the post was a fine local lady with eight children. Labor plugged the State Democratic Chairman. Then A.F. of L. and C.I.O. both plugged A.F. of L.'s Dan Tobin. Three ex-Congressmen called...
...contract (this year worth $522,000), he never bothered to modernize his equipment. He still uses horse-drawn wagons, a slow method which, even in normal times, permitted him to make no more than two collections a week. It also called for more manpower, therefore more jobs for his loyal Fifth Warders. But last month the manpower shortage finally caught up with Mike Scat...
Their innocent minds unmolested by any such torturing memories, the 326 newly loyal followers of Georgi Dimitrov implicitly endorsed Comrade Browder's modest definition of him as "the father of the Teheran Conference," the leader of the "all-inclusive unity of all the democratic and progressive forces of the world." Explicitly they pledged themselves to victory "in his name...
...last week from Moscow's Pravda and the pen of Bulgar Georgi Dimitroff, onetime defendant at Naziism's Reichstag fire trial and secretary of the late unlamented Communist International (see p. 20). Warned Bulgar Dimitroff: "The national policy of Bulgaria, from the viewpoint of her future, demands loyal cooperation with her neighbors. . . . Only by breaking with Germany at once and assisting in the defeat of Germany will Bulgaria save herself from catastrophe...
Thomas Alva Edison denied that there were any airships over Nebraska, but there were plenty of loyal Nebraskans to testify that the pilot of one low-flying craft leaned out, snatched up a farmer's chicken and dropped a note. It read: "This dodgasted airship business is not what some people crack it up to be. My vehicle is out of order and will not come down. . . . Excuse haste and poor writing, and search for my remains...