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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...
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...
...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...
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...
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...