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...YEAR 1937 I NOMINATE SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL. A STEADFAST STATESMAN SURROUNDED BY NEW DEALERS...
...whatever to do with it since that time. I abandoned it. I completely discontinued any association with the organization. I have never resumed it and never expect to do so. At no meeting of any organization, social, political or fraternal, have I ever indicated the slightest departure from my steadfast faith in the unfettered right of every American to follow his conscience in the matter of religion...
...compromising connection with the rebels. The result was that Connecticut and Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship, democratic rights, while England itself remained in the grip of repression for another quarter-century. Pious Rhode Islanders believed it divine mercy resulting from their steadfast adherence to God's laws. But shrewd Professor Andrews thinks that Englishmen were already secretly opposed to religious repression, willing to experiment abroad in granting rights they would not concede at home...
...incidents of this kind only occurred when she was away in Maine having a good time "before she was ninety" and he in New York working over a drafting table from one year's end to the other. Myrna Loy gradually assumed a dual personality; that of the understanding, steadfast wife, and that of the quasi-loyal wife who lays bare all her domestic troubles to a male friend when she should have kept them religiously to herself. The stock market crash in 1929 wiped out all his money, and the depression left him without a job. Through...
Calmest 'reaction to the hullabaloo was that of New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock. Wrote he: "The most steadfast vigilance on the part of administrators has been unable to prevent successful cases of malingering, double-timing and false pretenses of need. . . . How can they be eliminated entirely? Do the Republicans know the answer? If so, they have not yet imparted...