Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jamming was done by Joe Ingraham, an experienced Republican hand in Texas, the party's chairman for Harris County (Houston), and until a few weeks ago a staunch Taftman. Said Ingraham: "The Zweifel-Taft group . . . campaigned actively all over the state to get Democrats to come into the precinct conventions and vote for Taft. About a week before the precinct conventions, Henry Zweifel [Texas Republican national committeeman] spoke in Houston and threw out an open invitation to Democrats to come into the Republican precinct conventions. And whom did they elect on the Zweifel-Taft delegation, as delegate for this...
...that, at 29, he was named editor, and seven years later co-managing director of both the News and its more famous sister, the Manchester Guardian. At a time when many of Britain's papers were backing the government's appeasement policy toward the Nazis, Haley, a staunch Liberal, wrote forthright editorials attacking the government...
Congressman: in 1936, he finally won an election-to the U.S. House of Representatives from Philadelphia's second district; served in four successive Congresses; a staunch New Dealer, but refused to follow Franklin Roosevelt when it came to Irish politics-i.e., in 1939, he boycotted the congressional reception for Britain's King George and Queen Elizabeth because U.S. immigration authorities had detained Irish Revolutionary Sean Russell in Detroit...
...R.A.F. to speed Sir Hugh to Colombo: "Spare nothing-get a plane in the air at once!" Churchill and the British had cause to be grateful to Prime Minister Senanayake. Though in 1915 he had been jailed for 40 days by the British, he had become by 1948 their staunch friend and a worthy foe of the Communists. He had led Ceylon's 7,000,000 people to independence without bloodshed, and he became the new dominion's first Prime Minister. Working to end corruption and diminish poverty, he became known as "the Abraham Lincoln of the East...
...number of American citizens whose families came from that country. By basing this quota on the 1920 census, McCarran discriminates against southern and eastern Europeans, since there were proportionally fewer of them in America in the twenties than now. Negros are not counted in the census at all--probably staunch Constitutionalist McCarran's bow to the three-fifths rule. Moreover, professors and ministers of religion, who could formerly immigrate unrestricted, are now counted and rationed as well...