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...another careful choice of terms last week, Vice President Nixon called for conservatism without "stand-pattism." Said Nixon to a Los Angeles Republican luncheon: "I don't think we could make a greater mistake than to say that because some people don't like being called conservative the Republican Party should stop being conservative. We should be proud of what we believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Rockefeller-Stratton? | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...roots of present French weakness go deep into the roots of the very economy and habits of the country. Mendés-France is out to transform the economy of France from a cobwebbed cartelized stand-pattism into a vigorous competitive capitalism. To do this he must step on some well-shod toes, but in the ensuing process France will leave the bread line of U.S. foreign aid and take her rightful place in the community of Western nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Americans, Inc. is avowedly designed to aid the New Deal platform and explain it to people "who too frequently are influenced by the headlines prompted by the statements of a worn-out and discarded stand-pattism," believes that "recovery is essential to national existence" and adheres to "the principles and ideals of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Incorporated Americans | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia. Reason: "the spirit of liberalism, instead of cautious stand-pattism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Votes Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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