Word: stalwart
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...Douglas MacArthur, observing the second anniversary of the fall of Bataan at his South Pacific Headquarters, was certain to win this week's preferential primary in Illinois. The Chicago Tribune gave an order to its constituents: "A vote for MacArthur will be a vote for the return of stalwart Americanism to the White House." But the vote would not bind Illinois delegates. In Manhattan, MacArthur Headquarters were opened at the staid, legend-encrusted Murray Hill Hotel...
...basic issue of white rule, no major Southern politician raised a dissenting voice. In thunderous harmony (marred only by a few plaintive newspaper editorial writers) Southern thought was in favor of keeping the Negro in his traditional place. Florida's New Deal stalwart, Senator Claude Pepper, had been having great difficulty in his primary race for reelection. Now, liberal or no liberal, he hopped nimbly on the bandwagon: "The South will allow nothing to impair white supremacy." Said Louisiana's Senator John H. Overton: "The South, at all costs, will maintain the rule of white supremacy...
...been a country gentleman, a younger son reared not for the throne (that was for gay Edward), but for the ancillary quiet of a royal dukedom. A strict father, a stalwart mother and some reserve within himself gave him an air of strict propriety. A governess, tutors, a sergeant of the Coldstream Guards cultivated the necessary manners and arts. Naval schools (Osborne and Dartmouth), a sea tour as a snotty (midshipman) before and during World War I shaped him in his family's marine tradition. A childhood friendship produced his Duchess and his Queen, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon...
There was ample reason to worry New Dealers, besides the North African "expediency" that had outraged them already. Out with Wallace went his executive director Milo Perkins, an Administration stalwart, inventor of the famed New Deal food-stamp plan. If Perkins' firing had not been a certainty before, it became definite last week when he made a pep talk to 1,700 BEW employes and one uninvited reporter (Virginia Pasley, of the Washington Times-Herald). Henry Wallace kept mum and tended the corn in his Washington victory garden. But Milo Perkins told the BEW workers that Mr. Wallace...
...stalwart, bearded man of military bearing stood bareheaded in Arlington cemetery. Around him stretched 15,000 graves, neatly spaced row on row. Facing the small crowd that had gathered to hear him speak, he paid soldierly tribute to the men who had died in the Civil War. The occasion was America's first Memorial Day. The speaker was General James A. Garfield, later to become President of the United States. Said he: "Let us consider. Eight years ago this was the most unwarlike nation of the earth. . . . The faith of our people in the stability and permanence of their...