Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hysterics and became a mad man. His invective against James Wadsworth, whom the Committee planned to choose, was counteracted by a lucky break. The same morning the Committee announced that they wanted Robert Moses, the park commissioner who designed Jones Beach and the Northern State Parkway and an ardent anti-new dealer as their candidate. Young and forceful, Mr. Moses possessed none of the Old Guard characteristics which Mr. Macy bombarded. The Committee stood so high that they defeated Mr. Macy utterly at the pre-convention meeting and named Clarence Hancock as Temporary Chairman who will discuss national issues...
...difficulty of defeating Governor Brann lay in his big personal popularity. Knowing Maine's inborn conservatism, he did not pose as an ardent supporter of the New Deal. But he made use of New Deal support. Army engineers had rejected a proposed PWA project to spend $48,000,000 to harness the huge tides of Passamaquoddy Bay. President Roosevelt, however, wrote Mr. Brann expressing his interest in the project. During the campaign Secretary Ickes went to make a personal inspection?to see whether the Army engineers might not have been wrong. Thus Democrats dangled hope of a New Deal plum...
...Yesterday my attention was drawn to the following extract [TIME, Aug. 27]: "Last December J. David Stern, an ardent New Dealer, bought the New York Evening Post and in February hired Dr. Gruening as editor. . . . For all their enthusiasm for social reform, Stern of Russian-Jewish extraction and Gruening of German-Jewish extraction were unable to see eye to eye." . . . Would you be surprised to learn that David Stern is not of Russian extraction but of the same as Dr. Gruening, although further removed...
...criticism of U. S.-Latin American relations, President Roosevelt made him general adviser to the U. S. delegation at the Pan American conference at Montevideo. Last December J. David Stern, an ardent New Dealer from Philadelphia, bought the New York Evening Post and in February hired Dr. Gruening as editor. The association lasted only a few weeks. For all their enthusiasm for social reform, Stern of Russian-Jewish extraction and Gruening of German-Jewish extraction were unable...
...nonetheless, was elected by voters who wrote in his name on the ballot. Son Rush, an affable young bachelor who does not drink, does not smoke cigarets, made his reputation in the Legislature by flaying public utilities. If he whips Old Dealer Hatfield in November, he will make an ardent New Dealer in the Senate...