Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much for God and not enough for man"; he believed: "To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of God are alike impossible." Walter Reuther's pattern of life was molded by his father, Jacob's son Valentine, a union organizer and an ardent Socialist. Walter retains a vivid boyhood memory of going to Moundsville Penitentiary with his father to visit Socialist Eugene Debs, sentenced to ten years under the Espionage...
Died. Judge Harold M. Stephens, 69, chief justice of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; of cancer; in Washington. An early and ardent New Dealer, Stephens served with distinction during the early years of the Roosevelt Administration as assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust matters, was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 1935, later lost some of his New Deal support (and probably a Supreme Court appointment) by lining up against the Government in the 1938 decision forbidding the National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix the price of coal...
When President Eisenhower approved a boost of up to 50% in tariffs on Swiss watches last summer, he gave a reason that even the most ardent low-tariff men found hard to attack. The Office of Defense Mobilization, said Ike, had found from an interdepartmental report that "preservation of the unique skills of this industry [in the U.S.] is essential to the national security." Last week, after months of prodding by U.S. watch importers, the Defense Department released a report of its own that took a position quite different from that...
When he was twelve, he even made a speech before IBM's 100% Club of star salesmen. It was a "very good, short speech," his father happily recalls. For Tom Jr., his father set strict standards and never relaxed them. When Tom, an ardent boy scout, failed to make his Eagle badge, his father refused to send him on a gala seven-week trip to Europe, which he was financing for other Short Hills scouts...
Captain Shih's story is part of an ardent, often eloquent answer given by Author Caldwell to those who say Formosa or the offshore islands are not really worth saving. The argument, in Caldwell's opinion, has overlooked the Captain Shihs of Asia, "the men and women who still have faith...