Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carl Lomen at 48 is tall and slim with greying hair. His activities are many. He is a book and stamp collector, an ardent archeologist, but reindeer are his greatest hobby. His wife (they were married in October 1928) was Laura Volstead, daughter of the Father of Prohibition. Last summer she, now only passively interested in politics, spent her time flying from herd to herd with her husband. It is one of Carl Lomen's theories that reindeer herding can be done by airplane...
Last week, at dinner in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, the Christian Herald award was given to a layman: Fred B. Smith, moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, chairman of the U. S. section of the World Alliance for International Friendship, ardent Prohibitionist. Said the Association: "You have been chosen because the Christian Church for more than 40 years has had in you a demonstration of what can be wrought by a layman who is wholly given to the purposes of Christ." Moderator Smith, Mrs. Smith (his second) will sail for Palestine Feb. 16 on S. S. Calgarie...
...ardent advocate of restrictive immigration, he led the fight for the 1924 law and again, this year, secured the adoption of National Origins over the objection of President Hoover...
Miss Tucker, who is an ardent admire of England, is planning to return there shortly to take a principal part in a play by Jack Hurlburt and Paul Murray. Recently she has been making personal appearances at the showings of her talking picture, "Honky-Tonk...
Familiar to U. S. observers were three names in the new cabinet: Minister of Defense Vaugoin, reorganizer of the Austrian army, firm friend and ardent follower of Policeman Schober; Minister of Commerce Hainisch, Austria's beloved, white-bearded onetime President, whose pet cow Bella is world famed; and Minister of Finance Redlich. When the name of the new Minister of Finance was announced to Austrian newsgatherers, Dr. Josef Redlich, famed jurist, historian, lecturer, was at Cambridge, Mass., comfortably ensconced as Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard University. Professor Redlich has already served a term...