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...Staunch Friends. An unfriendly House subcommittee recently subjected Stewart to the toughest congressional grilling of his career, and the Senate, acting on the unanimous recommendation of its 27-member Appropriations Committee, tacked an amendment on an appropriations bill forbidding him to proceed with the west-front extension until he gets an independent appraisal of the feasibility of repairing the old walls...
...declaring that "to hint that there was anything scandalous in their relationship is perfectly ridiculous," said: "Of course he was in love with her. So was every man who knew Lucy." Mrs. Salley believes nonetheless that Roosevelt would have divorced Eleanor to marry Lucy, "but Lucy was a staunch Catholic and would never have married a divorced man." As Daniels points out in his book, there were other factors mitigating against a Roosevelt breakup, including F.D.R.'s "political ambition plus the mores of the sort of Wharton world in which he was born." Furthermore, Mama seemed to be onto...
...little taste for mock heroics and even less for overstatement. Its eyes are relatively clear, if at times somewhat troubled. Its productive record is vast and its potential still enormous. While at times it may seem hesitant and confused, it has pride in its competence, intelligence and tenacity, and staunch confidence in the future...
...arrival address, he graciously assured his smiling host: "In the lonelier and perhaps even more disheartening moments which come to any national leader, I hope there will be a corner of your mind and heart which takes cheer from the fact that you have an admiring friend, a staunch friend, that will be all the way with L.B.J...
...Staunch Ally. De Gaulle has made his point about the need for a new alignment in NATO, and principally for a new command structure. For all the movement within the alliance last week, France's President made it eminently clear through the course of his Russian tour that his country was still a staunch ally of the West. Few of his allies doubted that France would fail to respond with all it had to offer if a military emergency arose...