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...reasoning behind the Worker's sudden affection for Boss Hague is that he is a stanch supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, who is winning the war. New Jersey will choose a new governor next fall and he must be a Democrat, to silence the "copperheads" and "labor defeatists" who are angry with the President. And Boss Hague is still the boss of New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hold That Line! | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Greatest of these is unquestionably Ocarinist Bernie Ladd, who manufactures his own carefully tuned instruments and plays solos with Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Like most serious musicians, Ocarinist Ladd is a stanch traditionalist and prefers mud to plastic. He regards the U.S. Army's new unbreakable ocarinas as newfangled gadgets unworthy of a master's breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From Mud to Melody | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...whatever else Fiorello is or is not, he is a stanch antiFascist. And antiFascists, paradoxically, are not in the best of standing with the policy-makers of the officially anti-Fascist forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Last week, from a stanch old Republican oak with roots deep in the soil of the Midwest, dropped the first rebellious acorn. In his Emporia Gazette, Editor William Allen White attacked Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker resoundingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolt Against Bricker | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Three of the sponsors-Senators Hill, Hatch and Ball-have been stanch supporters of Administration foreign policy. For Senator Burton, who often voted with the Republican Isolationist bloc before Pearl Harbor, the resolution showed a courageous change of mind. The sponsors hoped to win over other onetime Isolationists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Declaration to the World | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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