Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Himself an ardent admirer of Ike Eisenhower, Texan Johnson obviously was trying to use the President's great popularity to build up the strength of the Democratic Party. In Mississippi, where the party has been badly split (in 1948 the state went Dixiecrat; in 1952 Ike got 39% of the vote, the best any Republican has done since reconstruction days), Johnson's new line was exactly what the Democrats wanted to hear. They cheered him lustily, and held long huddles with Steve Mitchell, the first Democratic national chairman who ever worked at his job in Mississippi...
Composer William Schuman, 42, is president of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. He is also an ardent baseball fan (New York Giants) and the unofficial coach of the kids in & around his suburban New York home. It was practically inevitable that his two interests should meet, and last week they did. Schuman's The Mighty Casey, a baseball opera, had its world premiere in Hartford, Conn...
Emporia, Kansas has long been famous as the home of the late William Allen White, ardent Bull Mooser, editor of the Emporia Gazette, and crusader for the rights of free speech. It is now rapidly becoming notorious as the locale of Emporia State Teachers College, whose acting President has recently enunciated the doctrine that a college teacher has no right to engage in political activity...
Both in & out of the Pentagon, Washington has been talking of the need for revision of the 1947 National Security Act ever since it was last patched by Congress nearly four years ago. But even the most ardent advocates of revision hesitated to throw debate open for the pulling and hauling of the individual services and their congressional spokesmen. Eisenhower's decision to present his proposals in the form of a "reorganization plan" was perhaps his happiest stroke, since a reorganization plan 1) cannot be amended by Congress, 2) is not likely to involve committee hearings, and 3) automatically...
...Swiss-born druggist and a Guatemalan mother, Arbenz, now 39, is a dry, dogmatic professional officer who taught at the national military academy before he joined the army junta that fought and won the revolution. He took office with relatively little political experience and a few burning obsessions: ardent nationalism, a conviction that the country's worst problems can be solved by drastic land reforms, a deep-seated hatred of "foreign monopolies," i.e., United Fruit Co. and other U.S.-owned firms operating in Guatemala. No Communist himself, he nevertheless accepted the Communists around him at their face value...