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...Christian and a "staunch liberal," according to Reischauer, Nambara is held in high regard by the U.S. Military Government in Japan...
...staunch supporters of long hair styles still refuse to conform. "I like short hair, but shingled haircuts do not look feminine," said Martha McCabe '53. Some students were even more irate. "Shingles on girls look worse than on roofs," said Ann Racder '51. And Nina Emerson '50 termed the new style "repulsive looking" and "masculine...
...What Atomic Blitz?" All of this made the Navy's bitterness understandable without making right what its bitter men said. Even so staunch a friend of the Navy as the New York Times's Annapolis-trained Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote that he himself did not consider the cutbacks in the Navy program disastrous. Baldwin added drily that "Some of the Navy's interest in morality as applied to strategic bombing seems new-found...
Senator Robert Taft is the latest prominent American to discover the beastly way in which this country has treated its staunch ally, Generalissimo Franco. He proposes a resumption of diplomatic relations with the Spanish dictator, in the interest of strengthening Western Europe against a possible Russian attack...
Dubinsky became president of I.L.G.W.U. (TIME, June 22, 1932) and, as the New Deal came along, publicly renounced his membership in the Socialist party and became a staunch supporter of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, May 11, 1936). An advocate of industrial unionism, he removed his union from the craft-unionized A.F.L. (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936) and joined the C.I.O. However, he also believed strongly in a unified labor movement and, when the obstinacy of John L. Lewis made peace between C.I.O. and A.F.L. impossible, he denounced Lewis in open forum (TIME, Jan. 24, 1938). Then Dubinsky led I.L.G.W.U...