Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereafter he had only the kindest words to say of that section of the U. S. which reveres both the Mason-Dixon and the color lines: "Was it not the Solid South, bulwark and Gibraltar of Democracy, that gave us Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the U. S.?* I need not tell you how that solid, united support of the South saved our Nation from destruction. . . . It was a Virginian, George Washington. . . . It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was Old Hickory Jackson, from Tennessee. . . . We need, above all else, peace. . . . Our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull...
...prospect of a rest. Big, swashbuckling Governor Flores da Cunha of his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, who rebelliously threw his support to Candidate Salles de Oliveira to keep his onetime friend Vargas from succeeding himself, was left stranded absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship for a barnstorming campaign along the coast...
Addressing the Buffalo Advertising Club, Professor Burges Johnson, chairman of the department of English at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. and onetime editor-in-chief of Judge, declared: "Mark Twain is the alltime, all-America cusser. He could cuss five solid minutes without repeating himself...
...most prosperous newspapers in the land is the solid old Milwaukee Journal which made money even during Depression. At her death last February, the 55% of Journal stock Founder Lucius William Nieman left in trust to his widow and his niece, Faye McBeath, was to be sold, not necessarily to the highest bidder, but to the persons "most likely to carry on the Journal tradition...
...Catholic editors had no doubts about the freedom of their press. "The Catholic press today is the largest part of what is left of a really free press," expounded venerable Bishop Francis Kelley of Oklahoma City. ''Its very difficulties have helped to keep it free. . . . The solid foundation of Catholic truth upon which it is built holds it back from following the unthinking crowd. . . . True, it is not indefectible, but what it represents is indefectible. . . ." The convention number of the Rochester Catholic Courier added: "Competent observers have stated that it is because of ... restrictions [admonitions of the Holy...