Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans were in Congress in 1936, offered an amendment that the House reassemble in three weeks instead of two months. Last year, when Parliament adjourned (after a reassuring speech by Prime Minister Chamberlain), it reassembled to be faced by the Czecho-Slovak Crisis, and many a member among loyal pro-Chamberlain Conservatives felt uneasily that it might return to face a comparable crisis this autumn, that such a crisis would be hard to explain to the voters at home...
...school created over the massive pillars of Union, Justice and Confidence. Its student body and alumni are as proud of it as are the ones of Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge. The wrongdoings of a single man could not make guilty a devoted, scholastically competent faculty and a loyal corps of students that cherish deep in their hearts the alma mater that is making them men of character and good citizens for the future. We enjoy here on this campus the liberties given to us by our forefathers in the Constitution and the Declaration of independence with more ampleness...
...Oval Room, his upstairs White House study. Seated on straight-backed chairs facing him were Charles McNary and Warren Austin, the No. 1 & 2 Republicans of the Senate, and William Edgar Borah, the Senate's dean on Foreign Affairs. Seated nearby also were "Dear Alben" Barkley, the loyal but bemused Senate Majority Leader; Secretary of State Hull; Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, White House Secretary Steve Early. Slowly revolving a cigar between pursed lips, looking more than ever owlish, Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner was also there...
...reorganizing broken down companies and putting them on their feet. Trouble-shooter Johnson had a survey made, from which he found that the most frequent word used by advertisers to describe the paper was "fuddy-duddy." He also found that the Transcript's 30,000 readers were astonishingly loyal. By last March he had got the Transcript's creditors to take one-third of a new stock issue, at 20? on the dollar, in payment for their claims, raised $200,000 from 23 new stockholders, of whom he himself was the largest. By last April Trouble-shooter Johnson...
...that when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...