Word: staunchly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange twist that makes Ohio the mother of Republican Presidents, staunch G. O. P. Senators, and Democratic Governors. James M. Cox, Democrat, was a popular Governor but a Presidential failure even in his own state. And so last week Ohio elected to his third term Governor Alvin Vic Donahey, Democrat, father of ten Children, who employs convicts about his house. But, by the politically learned, he is ignored as a presidential possibility...
...Budget Act gave him a term of 15 years during which time he was not removable by the President. So he went doggedly ahead, running his blue pencil through Government expenditures-cutting out teatasters for the Navy, slashing the traveling expense allowances of Federal employes. He enraged many; some staunch Army and Navy men deemed him a menace to their free expansion. Now, perhaps, with the President's ouster power unrestrained, the squirming pencil of "Watchdog" McCarl will pause before striking put that Government-paid turkey dinner of some traveling official...
Senator Samuel M. Shortridge of California-staunch Coolidge-ite, who has incurred the wrath of Senator Hiram W. Johnson, is opposed by John B. Elliott, McAdooian Democrat...
...Hines. Last month some military prophets wondered whether these same influences would again result in the appointment of another Pershing favorite, Major General Hanson E. Ely. Commandant of the Army War College, who is only eight months younger than Major General Summerall. However, Secretary of War Davis is a staunch believer in the seniority rule and Major General Summerall has a brilliant record, so his appointment was no surprise...
...President's staunch personal friend, onetime (1920-24) President Obregon, declared to newsgatherers...