Word: staunchest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even Arthur Vandenberg, staunchest champion of a bipartisan foreign policy, was not committed to ERP in its entirety. This week the President agreed to one Vandenberg suggestion: the Administration bill would be modified by eliminating the $17 billion, four-year target figure. Instead it would simply have a clause approving the four-year program in principle, and authorize a $6.8 billion appropriation for the first 15 months only. The way things looked now, the Administration would be lucky to get an authorization for as much as $5 billion. And it could not expect to get final congressional approval...
Even then, its party line was beginning to show. Within another year there was no concealing it. In 1939 the New Masses appealed for funds to "help the fight to keep America out of the imperialist war"; in 1943 it posed as "one of America's staunchest win-the-war publications...
Pauley, whose 1946 appointment as Under Secretary of the Navy was bounced back to Harry Truman's desk by a Senate committee, disclosed that he had recently tried to make himself acceptable to the right Senators for another sub-Cabinet post. After last week, even his staunchest Democratic friends knew that Ed Pauley was through...
...week's end, Scott and his wife were forced to move in with his staunchest supporter, Lumber Dealer Harold ("Tiny" ) Rice. Church trustees prepared a plea to the bishop to reconsider. Said Preacher Scott: "I shall not be moved...
...cure. Letters from the old country swore it was true. With a touch of his fingers Avak cured ulcers, paralysis, cancer. He had been tried for charlatanry-and had won acquittal by curing the throbbing pain in his judge's head. He had also won as his staunchest disciple the Iranian army doctor 'assigned to investigate...