Word: stanch
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...somewhat extraordinary that the Premier, a stanch Conservative, should propose an innovation as startling as broadcasting the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament. It must have shocked a great many grey hairs at Westminster. It was no doubt that "instinctive sanity" which prompted him to remark that the radio would enable millions to hear the debates of the Houses; and surely, as a cynic put it, the "radio world" should not be deprived of listening to the rhetoric of the Premier...