Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris made life miserable for Premier Lêon Blum who continued his harassed attempts to remain neutral. In French Communist circles it was said that Communist Deputies supporting the Socialist Premier's coalition or "Popular Front" had received orders from the Moscow Comintern that Barcelona, the great stronghold of Spanish Radicalism, "must be saved at any cost, even if it means French intervention in a form which would provoke war with Germany, and irrespective of the fate of Madrid?' It was even said in Spain that Joseph Stalin might admit to his Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...decent citizens with the unsavory politics of the Curley regime; the fact that Thomas J. O'Brien, Union Party candidate for Senator as well as Vice President, split Curley's vote. Long-legged Lodge made the most of his chances. He marched into Curley's stronghold, Boston, won it and the State by a plurality that was just about the number of votes O'Brien took from Curley. When he takes the Senate seat now held by Marcus Coolidge he will subtract only one from the Democratic majority, but will alter the balance of brainpower considerably...
...hilly, grimy stronghold of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and of their aggressive labor unionism are the rich bituminous coal fields of Alabama's Walker County. Last month Walker County's miners came home to hear shocking news from their children's mouths. Three of the county's schoolteachers, who had been organizing their 375 colleagues into a Teachers' Association and were trying to pet an A. F. of L. charter, had been fired for "incompetence, outside activity." To this familiar gesture, the miners made a familiar answer. Last week Walker County...
...Latin prizes. After graduation he taught at Gunnery and Hopkins, before starting his own school. In 1923 he married Edith Fitch, has one son, three daughters. As conservative as Horace Dutton Taft in educational policy, he will introduce no frills at Taft. 'keep it a stronghold of Latin, mathematics, plain hard work. His younger brother Harold, a onetime Taft student who graduated from Yale in 1931, inherits his job at Romford...
...furnish that Intellectual leadership which has invariably been her glory. As we survey the transitory present, we may rejoice that a new Harvard is being shaped on the old foundations--a Harvard ready as always, to adapt herself to the needs of her age, but still standing a stronghold for the traditions and guiding principles of the past a Harvard which will justify our hopes and expectations for a future worthy of the dreams of her founders and the nobles' efforts of her leaders in all generations