Word: stanching
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...business last week got a chance to take a hardheaded look at what the war is doing to its No. 1 heavy industry-steel. What it saw would have startled stanch private capitalists of the brand of the elder Morgan or Judge Gary...
Within a stone's throw of the German border, Swiss newspapers, with stanch impartiality, print news from all nations of the world. Last week they had one story which set them back on their heels...
...Political Mistake." Not since Franklin Roosevelt's nomination of Hugo Black to the Supreme Court in 1937 had there been such volatile discussion over an appointment, such throwing of epithets. Even Ed Flynn's stanch defenders shook their heads. Said New Deal Columnist Ernest...
...stocky, rugged Justice Rutledge, 48, had more than geography to recommend him. Least known nationally of all Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court appointees, he is famed among legal scholars. He was a stern critic of the old Supreme Court for declaring child labor laws unconstitutional, is a stanch believer in liberal interpretation of the Constitution's "general welfare" clause. Yet his views are far from radical: his appointment was first suggested by Iowa's conservative Senator Guy M. Gillette...
...Vice President, Johnson was Lincoln's choice and a stanch Lincoln supporter, a fact overlooked by historians who cast him as a villain. Like the members of Franklin Roosevelt's "Janizariat," Johnson was attacked as a whipping boy by Lincoln's enemies. The picture does not omit the drunken spectacle Johnson made of himself at his inauguration as Vice President, but the documented fact that he was no habitual drunkard is underlined in the film by a letter to him from Lincoln: "You ornery old galoot; don't you know better than to drink brandy...