Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor. It rests on George Earle's own popularity with the miners and steelworkers of Pennsylvania, on the fact that he was able to go out and effectively stump his State last autumn, helping to bring Pennsylvania into the Democratic column for Franklin Roosevelt. Not only as an ardent but as a potent New Dealer, Governor Earle's announcement that he favored a third term for Roosevelt was significant...
...Senators (among them Court Candidate Joseph T. Robinson), members of the Social Security Board and Government attorneys dotted the crowd in the court room. The political consequences of the decision would affect not only the Social Security program but the President's Court program. To many an ardent New Dealer there would have been a very silvery lining in a decision finding this New Deal law unconstitutional. That would have given them fresh proof that more Justices were needed to liberalize the Court...
...Canterbury? Roman Canterbury, near the seacoast of Kent, was a convenient stopping place for travelers to Britain. Here in 597 A.D. came that ardent Benedictine, St. Augustine, a missionary from Rome, to found a monastery and become the first Archbishop of Canterbury, even before the Norman Conquest. Ever since then Canterbury's archbishops have been England's primates, by simple priority. The archbishopric of York, far to England's north, was established two centuries later, not to challenge the authority of Canterbury but purely for administrative reasons...
Five years ago potent Publisher Alfred Hugenberg, at that time head of an ardent Nationalist Party, was picked by many a wiseacre as the likeliest man to stop the march to power of Adolf Hitler. Publisher Hugenberg was wiser. Even before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Alfred Hugenberg prudently dissolved his own party, loudly and publicly joined the Nazis. Herr Hitler was grateful, for a while, but last week Alfred Hugenberg was forced to resign from his last important job: director of UFA, Germany's largest motion picture company...
...brilliance of Mr. Landis, Mr. Zabriskie puts the question which others have asked. Has the new dean the "legal temperament" which a dean should have? In other words, did the corporation choose wisely? The Bulletin editorial asserts that Mr. Zabriskie's "explosion" has rendered audible or visible the ardent and angry spoken condemnation of other graduates...