Word: stanching
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...years ago a Democratic wind blew through the Valley of Depression and the House of the Elephant fell. As houses go it was stanch. Only four times in 75 years had it suffered material damage from political storms and each time was presently repaired. But never until the Great Engineer turned loose an economic tempest with which a lesser engineer in the White House could not cope, never until 1932, was the House of the Elephant wrecked. For 20 months the wreckage lay where it fell, untouched. Only a stout heart would dare to attempt the labor of "repairing...
...duty of all states to cooperate in preventing political assassinations. Informally they then discussed with correspondents the many rumors that terrorists, escaped from Jugoslavia, have been harbored in Hungary in circumstances suggesting that their keep might have been paid by Italians who felt that King Alexander was too stanch a bulwark against Il Duce's aspirations in the Adriatic...
...University of West Virginia news leaked out that a Democratic Board of Governors was about to oust the University's President John Roscoe Turner, stanch Republican. Several hundred students walked out of classes in a noisy "one-day holiday" of protest...
...Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch for Lerroux. At week's end they had jailed Largo Caballero, silenced the rebels' guns everywhere except in the northern province of Asturias, where revolt traditionally dies hard...
Though to many a stanch Republican Henry Agard Wallace is a fire-breathing radical, he thinks of himself as a "middleaged, middle-course" person. New Frontiers, written with enthusiastic garrulity, is an argumentatively factual account-rendered of his stewardship so far, his hopes, plans for the future. He believes the new social machinery, such as AAA, "just as important" as the invention of the automobile. Chief objective of U. S. government in the next ten years, says he, should be "so to manage the tariff, and the money system, to control railroad interest rates; and to encourage price and production...