Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says he: "We all admire Meade's views-even if he's out of politics." Not all of Meade's men remained so steadfast. Last month G.O.P. City Chairman Robert Duffy, who owed his position to Meade, resigned and announced for Longstreth. Leader Edward Harris, after a canvass in his 27th Ward, also went for Longstreth, saying: "I thought it would be better for the party if committeemen took orders from the bottom up-from the voters-instead of from the top down." Other ward leaders pleaded with Meade to support Longstreth...
...Washington last week, the U.S. Government showered $105 million in economic aid and $50 million in military aid on Pakistan's likable Prime Minister Mohammed Ali. In him the U.S. recognized a friend; in his country the U.S. recognized an Asian nation steadfast in its resistance to Communism. Unfortunately, just at the climactic moment, Ali had to cut short his trip and hurry home. In Karachi 70 hours later, Mohammed Ali was all but stripped of power...
Said the 1951 biography: "Toward the end of 1924, agents of the security police arrested Comrade Vasile Luca and subjected him to untold tortures and sufferings, trying to make him betray names of his comrades and to make him betray his party. Like a true Communist, he remained steadfast and unshaken, and refused to betray the cause." Said last week's indictment: In 1924 he enrolled as an agent for the Rumanian secret police and "acted as an agent provocateur...
...Americans and their battlemates . . . In cruel and baffling conflict; achieving success through the punitive power of the concert of nations; earlier staving off Communist aggression as head of a military mission to Greece; now, through the American-Korean Foundation, helping to heal the wounds of battle . . . an enlightened and steadfast man of arms...
...University and Lowell himself were under constant fire from the conservative press for allowing such men to remain on the faculty. Lowell was violently condemned for his steadfast defense of Harold J. Laski, instructor in political science...