Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cesare Pinchetti, on his first visit to the U. S. Like his father before him Signor Pinchetti owns Rome's Hotel Bristol, where visiting royalties used to stay. He speaks for the Italian hotel industry in the National Council of the Corporative State (see p. 23). Short, stout and 46, he was more excited last week over the prospect of seeing Niagara Falls than over the Waldorf dinner...
...violence in the past fortnight the long agitation over University of California student radicalism came to a painful head. Small, sporadic outbursts of young liberalism have made Red-fearing citizens plague the University's President Robert Gordon Sproul with demands for investigation. Sproul the Educator shot back a stout defense of academic freedom. To students arriving for this year's session he boomed: "Learn about Communism, Socialism and every other 'ism' so that you may balance . . . one against the other, but don't be misled" (TIME...
Into the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act he wrote for Congress last year Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman carved that clause as a stout weapon for just such a battle as he was in last week. For the first time he was telling potent carriers how to route their trains and for the first time the railroads were openly challenging his authority to dictate on ordinary traffic matters. The immediate stake was $1.000,000 per year in passenger revenue between Chicago and points South. The larger issue was the whole principle of one-man control over the railroad...
...shall pass over Mr. Cherington's stout assertation of the virility of Critic contributors and ignore his attribution to Advocate authors of the most marked physical characteristics of Pegasus, as hardly being in the good taste which he demands...
...time was presently repaired. But never until the Great Engineer turned loose an economic tempest with which a lesser engineer in the White House could not cope, never until 1932, was the House of the Elephant wrecked. For 20 months the wreckage lay where it fell, untouched. Only a stout heart would dare to attempt the labor of "repairing" the débris, least of all undertake to reconstruct the House in five scant months. That heart was the heart of Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week Mr. Fletcher might well have doubted whether courage or folly had moved his heart...