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...political upset in-England causes many a staunch Conservative to wonder dubiously whether the apple which taught Newton the law of gravity could have been a Baldwin...
...records of the past in the United States and other countries show the effects of still other types of mental astigmatism in the observer. Revered traditions and enshrined heroes of America are protected above by the screaming eagle and on all sides by a cordon of staunch state legislatures, self-chosen guardians of national myths. Any history which puts in question an action of the United States may be thrown out of the schools as foreign propaganda. In the opposite camp are the "heretics" who tell us that whatever is, is probably not right, and who sometimes go afield...
That President Harding is a staunch friend and a good neighbor is shown by his treatment of his fellow-citizens of Marion, Ohio...
...politics he was a Republican and staunch party man. When Roosevelt started the Progressive party, he said he would rather " quit politics than split his party." On the other hand, he supported President Wilson on the League of Nations issue, denouncing the irreconcilables. He helped write the Republican tariff plank and yet attacked the Fordney-McCumber Tariff for its wool duties. An enemy of the Non-Partisan League in the Northwest, an opponent of the soldier bonus (although one of the two civil war veterans in the Senate), a supporter of the Dyer anti-lynching bill and an advocate...
When Mr. Chamberlain was a member of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs he was a staunch advocate of preparedness and came out strongly against his fellow-Democrat Newton D. Baker. He is probably the most conspicuously able statesman whom Oregon has yet given to the nation, and there are those who feel that he has merit as a Democratic presidential possibility...