Word: loyally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, already singed by the reaction to his selection of Politico Tom Clark, was reported not too anxious to lay himself open to the charge of another political appointment so soon. If his anxiety outweighed his friendship for loyal Democrat McGrath, ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the most likely possibilities for Rutledge's seat seemed to be Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Justice Harold M. Stephens of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Connecticut Senator Brien McMahon, or former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson...
...Sweets, in a typical party-liner's defense: "It is not loyalty to the U.S. that is really in question. It is, rather, loyalty to reaction-loyalty, I am convinced in my case, to the ideas of the National Association of Manufacturers. For the record - I am not loyal to many of their ideas. And I never will be." The council of Sweets's union, the Radio & Television Directors' Guild, unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "forced" resignation, because "a man's talent and ability should be the sole cri teria by which he is judged...
Hatchetman Westbrook Pegler, already on record as "anti-democratic," set his readers straight on another point: "I should like to release those delegates who have been loyal to me on the ground that I was not anti-union but only anti-communist and anti-racketeer . . . Yes, I am now anti-union...
Namesake of a Queen. Dimitrios was in excellent standing with the Greek army, which considered him a loyal nationalist and supplied him with arms for his village guard. Dimitrios, in turn, denounced as Communists many of his fellow villagers. The army never noticed that most of those he denounced were husbands or fiances of pretty village women. Nor did the army find it suspicious that, whenever the guerrillas attacked in the region, Klidi was spared...
...Manhattan, Episcopal Bishop Charles K. Gilbert defended Mrs. Roosevelt on more personal grounds, criticizing Cardinal Spellman's attack as "bitter and unjust," and adding: "I desire to associate myself with Mrs. Roosevelt in the sentiments she has expressed, which will be shared, I am confident, by multitudes of loyal and fair-minded citizens...