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Money as a Tool. The career started 14 years ago. Eccles, a staunch Mormon, was also a staunch advocate of the theory that money is a tool to be used, not hoarded. As a young man in Mormon frock coat and silk hat, he had proselytized for the Latter-Day Saints along Glasgow's Clydeside. As a Utah enterpriser, he had used the sizable fortune inherited from his pioneer father to build a small empire of sugar, lumber and construction companies, and 28 banks throughout Utah and Idaho...
...over a year, Italian Socialists (except a small, staunch group under Saragat which seceded in January 1947) have slavishly cooperated with the Communists. Now, with its head in the lion's mouth, the Socialist Party would have to decide whether to crawl right down the lion's throat: if it entered the front, its candidates would appear on joint Communist-Socialist ballots in the Italian national elections next April...
Yesterday was General Robert E. Lee's birthday anniversary and ten Staunch southerners from Kirkland House didn't let it pass unnoticed...
...staged an unspectacular campaign. But his earnest speeches drew good crowds. He spoke out in favor of "the Southern way of life"; otherwise, he did not mention the subject of white supremacy. Instead, he talked about improving agricultural methods and backing the U.N. Said John Stennis, a teetotaler, a staunch Presbyterian and a family man (two children): "As a Senator ... I want to plow a straight furrow down...
...class of schooners through her trial paces. The Acadia 42 (socalled because of her 42-ft. overall length), designed by Stairs and built wholly of native white oak, pine and spruce, worked up to eight knots in a brisk breeze. Said Stairs:"She's fast, staunch, sound-a darned good sea boat. I'd take her around the world tomorrow." Instead, he loaded her on a flatcar last week for delivery to a California buyer...