Word: staunched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole situation is based on hypothesis. If a bill of the Haugen type is passed, the President will have the alternative of vetoing it. If farm depression continues, Mr. Lowden (staunch Republican with eyes to the West) and whatever Democrats and Republicans stood for the Haugen bill, will have a first-rate issue in 1928. By contrary, if the President should approve such a bill, the Government would probably get into financial hot water before...
...County, Pa. George Washington went to claim his lands and found one David Reed in possession of them. The two went to law and David Reed won. Last week it was discovered by genealogists that David Reed was the great-great-grandfather of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, staunch supporter of the Administration, and the great-grandfather of Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, vigorous Democrat?enemies in politics, cousins in blood...
...more than 200 manufacturers of agricultural implements in the U. S., the greatest by far is the International Harvester Co. Another, far smaller, far less staunch, is the Advance-Rumely Co. Both last week made their financial reports for 1925; found the year the best in almost a decade...
...White House confidant should be repudiated, from whatever true cause, by the President's home state, the possibilities are infinite. To the country at large, it will appear as a rebuke to the President himself. Would the halo of staunch Puritan piety and common sense fall away from Mr. Coolidge in the eyes of fickle politicians? Would his hopes for a third term fade? These are interesting speculations. If shorn of his home support, the President should remain in the saddle, he would afford an instance of party control remarkable in American history The coming campaign which is fraught with...
...rode them did not all look sweet upon the seats; their faces, as they swept around the track for the first lap, presented a jumbled cinema of anxiety, hope, fear, ferocity and desperate determination. Two to a team, they relieved one another periodically. There was Reggie McNamara, staunch veteran of uncountable races, pedaling warily, knowing that the road was a long one. Experienced Eddie Madden and Bobby Walthour, too. let the young up-and-comers snatch the first kudos. There were Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Poles, Irishmen and Jews, with names like Lacquehay, Georgetti, Goosens, Stockelynch, Keller, Kockler, Golle, Meithe, Bello...