Word: standpat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best-organized, best-financed campaign in years, Congressman Ross Rizley was conceded little chance to defeat the Democrats' wealthy ex-Governor Bob Kerr for the seat vacated by ancient Senator Ed Moore. Backed by labor and a strong Democratic tradition, Bob Kerr cried: "Rizley is a reactionary, standpat, Roosevelt-hating, Ed Moore and Bob Taft Republican...
...Yellow Peril." Standpat "Yellow Peril" opponents of Oriental immigration have been unable to build up 105 Chinese into a menace. Their spokesman, Representative A. Leonard Allen of Louisiana, argues that repeal of the Chinese ban would immediately generate pressure for the admission of all other Orientals (except, of course, Japs). Representative Allen goes further to argue that tens of thousands of Chinese from Hong Kong might come in under the British quota. One reply was a new bill providing that 75% of the quota must be residents of China proper...
...strongly worded Page One editorial at a vigilante group which wanted to smash the picket line and open the plant, rode out the protests, saw the strike settled two weeks later. As an active head of the Free Press he plans to nurse it gently from a rock-ribbed, standpat Republicanism to a more Independent demeanor, for he likes to be free to jump in any political direction, favors the Third Term in a mild...
...Standpat Southerners deny such stories with heat and hatred; non-Southerners know too little to have any right to an opinion. Author Caldwell's taste for close crowding of extremes of cruelty, pity, irony, inconsistency and comedy, his occasional tendency to stack his cards, still further obscure these important facts: that the South is a country of incredible extremes; that for all his faults Caldwell is one of the best and fairest recorders of them...