Word: staunchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petites frolicking about their luxurious nursery, registering all sorts of emotions to anyone with a sympathetic imagination, and knocking over miniature chairs when told to be little ladies. The gruff brat-baiters, on the other hand, will find plenty of diversion in the career of Jean Hersholt, playing the staunch country doctor...
...longer a question of Congress gracefully going through the motions and then pointing to a Roosevelt or Hoover veto and declaring its impotency. It is perhaps reasonable to count upon another Roosevelt veto but the question is whether one out of three of our Senators is sane, staunch, . . . and patriotic...
...columns of type and pictures reporting President Roosevelt's dedication of the dam. the die-hard Los Angeles Times, whose publisher Harry Chandler is a staunch friend of Citizen Hoover, stubbornly called it Hoover Dam except when directly quoting the President and Secretary Ickes. The project has never been named by law. Construction was authorized by "The Boulder Canyon Project Act." but the actual site was changed from Boulder Canyon to Black Canyon 20 miles distant. Customary procedure is to name a project after the act authorizing it, unless Congress decrees otherwise. Two Congressional bills introduced...
...legislators' patriotism and 100 per cent Americanism--at last to the American Legion, Elks and similar organizations who have waged the fight for its passage. It would be almost unfair to remind them in the glow of their present partial success that patriotism in days past meant staunch support of American traditions such as freedom of speech and tolerance of minorities...
There are some who look askance at the consistency with which the views of Hearst, Long, and Coughlin coincide. Stout Republicans and staunch Democrats possess insidious forebodings that such a powerful triumvirate may not be as harmless and as purposeless as it seems, with the 1936 elections looming not so far ahead. It will be remembered that the Hearst Syndicate was solidly behind Honest John Garner and solidly opposed to Roosevelt until the latter's nomination seemed a foregone conclusion in the Democratic convention. It must be realized that the good Father's flock of some millions...