Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careful handling of the dynamite-packed TVA investigation in 1938 he was rewarded in 1939 with a judgeship in the Circuit Court of Appeals. There he might have stuck for a lifetime, wrapped in Biddle dignity. But when the opening came he dived off again to become Solicitor General...
Back in London last week from a visit to Russia's front as chief of the British Military Mission was Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, a pukka sahib, the archetype of British sporting soldiery, a man who had stuck pigs in India, raced autos in the Alps, shot grouse in Scotland, worn the kilt in Budapest, and in between times been military attache in Berlin (1937-39) and Army Commander at Gibraltar (1940-41). He thought the Reds were a bit of all right. His report...
...city famed for denunciations of reporters, Senator Barkley delivered the most blistering denunciation of Correspondent Manly and the Tribune that Washington had heard in many a day. The gist: that Manly's alleged inside story was "a deliberate, and malicious falsehood out of the whole cloth." Correspondent Manly stuck to his story. Colonel McCormick backed him up with a scorching anti-Roosevelt editorial running almost a column...
...would recognize no territorial gains based on conquest. At every turn in his career for 30 years Henry Stimson's attention was focused on the international scene. He not only got around, meeting Mussolini, Laval, the Sultan of Sulu and many another world character, he also consistently stuck to the view that the U.S. could not merely look inwardly to its own security, that it could not long remain safe in a world where aggressors were allowed to roam free...
When the invasion came George Waller stuck to his post. When the Germans ousted U.S. diplomats from occupied countries in July 1940 he dropped his diplomatic title, became simply consul. On his desk he kept a picture of the Grand Duchess, changed the flowers before it daily. Finally the Germans ousted the consuls too, and George Waller returned to the U.S. on the West Point last fortnight...