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...unexpected defection highlighted the opening round of the house debate on the controversial loan, and it arrayed with the Republican opposition such hitherto-staunch administration supporters as Reps. Adolph Sabath, (D), N.Y., dean of the House, Hugh Delacy, (D), Wash., Emanuel Cellar, (D), N.Y., and Vito Marcantonio...
Werner Schwalb, a staunch Nazi for most of his 31 years, joined the German Army in 1937. As a tank gunner he won an Iron Cross in the invasion of France. He was with Rommel in North Africa. Then he was captured, and that finished him as a soldier. But not as a Nazi...
More & more Tories charge that in debates of world impact he merely grapples with the Government for petty party gains, while in matters of genuine difference with the Government he lets subordinates take over. Gravest and most justified complaint: Churchill, in his staunch opposition to gradual relaxing of the Empire's bonds, does not reflect his party's majority view...
...made a plan, carried it through and the battle was won. There is no getting away from that. Happily, there is no need for us to fling any mud back. The Americans were magnificent. . . . Monty says without qualification that the battle of the Ardennes was won primarily by the staunch fighting qualities of the American soldier...
Bette Davis plays identical twins. As the Good Twin she falls in love with a pipe-puffing engineer (Glenn Ford). As the Bad Twin she steals him, pipe & all, marries him, manages to be spectacularly unfaithful. But the Good Twin stays staunch and true despite the Neanderthal attentions of an alarming artist (Dane Clark...