Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robinson, who faces a fight for reelection, the President said: ". . . No man deserves greater credit for loyal devotion to a great cause than my old friend and associate. . . ." Afterward Franklin Roosevelt broke the rule that a President never dines out with an individual host, went to dinner at Joe Robinson's home...
When the Democratic majority rewarded Joe Byrns's quarter-century of loyal Party service with the Speakership 17 months ago, the New Deal counted on quiet, able Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead of Alabama to help him keep that unwieldy majority marching in line. Leader Bankhead fell ill the day he was elected, did not take over his job until last January. Last week, in its unprecedented situation of being without a Speaker, the House was called to order by Clerk South Trimble less than twelve hours after Joe Byrns had breathed his last...
...Somoza showed his hand. His National Guard kicked out the Government's officials in a dozen Nicaraguan towns. Forewarned, President Sacasa prepared Nicaragua's two strongest fortresses: surrounded the pink stone Presidential Palace near Managua on top of a dead volcano with his Guard of Honor, pushed loyal National Guardsmen to Fort Acosasco in Leon. Next day the National Guard assaulted the Presidential Palace in force, were repulsed with two dead, 16 wounded. Meanwhile National Guard artillery pounded away at Fort Acosasco, commanded by the President's kinsman, Major Ramon Sacasa...
...chief job is to guard Adolf Hitler. Schutzstaffel Chief Heinrich Himmler made a speech: "And as we serve here, you will serve in Valhalla, for your Führer, for our movement and for Germany." The Führer laid on the grave a wreath inscribed, "To my old, loyal, beloved comrade." Himmler went on: "And now, dear comrade, I may announce to you an honor which the Führer has planned for you ... an honorable detachment of the Schutzstaffel will bear the name of Julius Schreck in the future...
Canada's Conservative Richard Bedford Bennett is now the dignified, correct and unpopular leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Last week in Ottawa, this onetime premier rose before the Budget Committee in the House of Commons to denounce the duty-free entrance of U. S. publications and syndicate features into Canada, to flay some of the Dominion's most vulgar and popular U. S. comic-strip importations...