Word: stalwartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron and Macon plopped into the sea. Of the large rigid airships built since the War only those of Germany have been successful-the Los Angeles, now in retirement at Lakehurst, the stalwart old Graf Zeppelin, still shuttling the South Atlantic after carrying some 13,000 passengers without harm, and the new Hindenburg, which runs as safely on the same route...
...efforts to fight for the Republic!" That this was no idle bombast was evident when 6,000 Catalonians under debonair Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti marched to the relief of Madrid. Also fighting with the beleaguered Red militia, who for the first time were reported using poison gas, was a stalwart pro-Red column of volunteers, made up of Russians, Italians, French, Germans and Poles. From among Madrid's refugee-swollen population of 1,500,000, there were last week more than 50,000 actively defending the capital. General Franco's White Army totaled not more than 40,000. According...
...Stalwart allies of the shipowners, the officers of the orthodox East Coast maritime unions also joined in the cry of "Communism!" Led by Negro Vice President David E. Grange of the International Seamen's Union, they tried to provide crews for all ships vacated by Curran's "outlaws." Claiming that "the only 'outlaws' in the present seamen's strike are the I. S. U. officials," Curran charged that Grange had failed to make a proper accounting of $143,000 in union funds, had constantly accepted fees from shipowners. Evidence of this was so strong that...
...straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform. In New York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled William Lemke, whose Union Party vote for President was piddling, easily topped the field for re-election to his present Republican job as Representative-at-Large...
Lisbon tailors promptly patterned a natty uniform for the Legionaries, and the Government announced, "Anyone not a Legionary wearing this garb will be subject to penal prosecution." Any stalwart Portuguese from 18 to 50 could apply for membership last week, but Legion organizers said that all candidates will be carefully scrutinized, required to take this oath: "I will defend my country and its social order and give my life and property willingly for its Corporative State. I will repudiate and tight Communist doctrines...