Word: stanching
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...career distinguished by stanch independence, it was not the first time that blind Senator Gore had lost his job because of opposition to a Democratic President. In 1916-17 he fought Woodrow Wilson's drift toward war, fathered the Gore-McLemore resolution to keep U. S. citizens off belligerent ships, voted against war and, in consequence, failed of reelection in 1920. Returning to the Senate in 1931, this onetime Populist turned hard-headed conservative proceeded to oppose such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill...
...worldly, 18th Century Episcopalian named George Washington first conceived the idea of a great cathedral in the U. S. capital. Late in the materialistic 19th Century The Cathedral Church of Saints Peter & Paul was begun on Washington's Mount St. Alban. Last week a stanch Presbyterian displayed two stained glass windows, designed for the National Cathedral, and executed with the simple, wholehearted reverence of the Gothic 13th Century. Already the author of 13 National Cathedral windows, Lawrence Bradford Saint made his- latest pair to flank the stairway to the crypt in the North Transept, as a memorial...
...passed two stiff tests. First was to face down the animosity of its Ohio neighbors who, learning that Founder-Bishop Philander Chase had raised his first $30,000 from the British nobility, firmly believed that Kenyon was a British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase, the Founder's nephew. Valedictorian of the Class of 1842 was Rutherford Birchard Hayes...
Earlier birds than the tired Landonites next day were Attorney General Thomas Cheney of New Hampshire and James Irwin, stanch pluggers for Colonel William Franklin Knox. Right after breakfast they set out to see what last-minute hope there might be for their man. Their reward was a 74-to-1 vote for Knox at the Pennsylvania delegation's morning caucus. That made the Vandenberg acclamation impossible. The rest was easy. At the Convention, Governor Bridges nominated Colonel Knox, Chairman Snell read the Vandenberg message, and the acclaim fixed for the latter went to the former...
Water transportation is the most important single factor in J. & L. economy. A stanch supporter of inland waterways development, the company pioneered in shipping steel by river in the early 1920's, now has a fleet of 250 barges, six tugs, plying the waters of the Mississippi River basin. On an average, J. & L. dispatches two tows per month, each loaded with 10,000 tons of finished steel destined for Southern and Southwestern markets. Export steel is transshiped at New Orleans. Water transportation saves J. & L. as much as $4,000,000 per year...