Word: staunchly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he was going to back "a very generous appropriation" for foreign aid. Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, who has voted against foreign aid for ten years, called the speech "highly gratifying"-and promised to vote in favor of the President's program. New York Republican Jacob Javits, a staunch budget defender through the battle, reported that his mail was running 10 to 1 in Eisenhower's favor, and "I would call that a dramatic shift in public opinion...
...Late to Cry. The next attack came from a surprising source, from a man almost as respected by the Tory gentry as Salisbury himself-lantern-jawed Earl of Halifax, a staunch Conservative who very nearly became Prime Minister in 1940 instead of Winston Churchill.* Halifax thought that if the government had handled itself better before the Suez invasion, "we might have avoided the discredit of a course of action which we could not in fact carry through." Lord Salisbury, said Halifax, was a member of the government which launched the Suez invasion, "and if he was-as no doubt...
...even hit home among his old friends, the voters. Only one TV network (NBC) carried his speech live, and a Trendex rating showed that only 11.3% were watching (with another 48% not watching anything). TIME correspondents across the U.S. reported that most nonprofessionals just weren't listening. Staunch Ikemen were disappointed. "Believe me," said a Los Angeles insurance executive, "the President didn't change one opinion or one vote." The crusading anti-budgeteers were more belligerent than ever. "As for taking the President's word for it-well, he has lost stature with the people," said...
Claiming seniority, Murray sought minority leadership of the senate this year. But Kenny, with the blessing of his staunch ally. Governor Robert Meyner, pulled the strings to outmaneuver Murray for the minority leadership...
Saragat, a staunch antiCommunist, who is not satisfied that Nenni has really broken with Moscow, managed to resist the pressure until last week. Then, seizing on the behind-scenes maneuvers of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi (who not long ago outraged the Segni Cabinet by proposing to send a neutralist letter to Ike), Saragat suddenly charged that within the Christian Democratic Party itself there were forces guilty of "silent hostility" to Segni's pro-Western foreign policy. "For 22 months," intoned Saragat righteously, "we Social Democrats have kept the faith. Now we must withdraw." Left with only...