Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With both Reno and Wallace, George Peek has much in common. He and Reno served on the Committee of 22 in 1926-28. Reno was an ardent supporter of the McNary-Haugen bill, which Peek instigated and lobbied through Congress from Vice President Dawes's anteroom only to have Calvin Coolidge veto it twice. Both Peek and Wallace used to be Republicans. Wallace shifted parties after his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, President Harding's Secretary of Agriculture, died in 1924, his last days clouded by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's frustration of his plans for farm...
...hemorrhage, after long illness; in Shinnecock Hills, L. I. His varied, steady-climbing banking career began when he, a flour mill clerk, was given a job by an Albany bank so he could pitch for its baseball team. France and Belgium decorated him for his Liberty Loan work. An ardent golfer, he was treasurer of the U. S. Golf Association...
...three Chicago architects considered Milwaukee's greatest architectural monuments. Shepherding the Pilgrims round the gallery was a Milwaukee architect, Alexander Carl Guth, who was expected to say a few words of appreciation. Alexander C. Guth. secretary of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Institute of Architects, recent ardent convert to modernism, said a few words to set Milwaukee conservatives' hair acurl. Excerpts...
...Francisco's fire companies were not only a potent political force, like those of New York, but the equivalent of the city's swankest clubs. Lily soon was as ardent a vamp as ever answered a midnight alarm or kept his rubber boots at the head of the bed. She was married about this time to Howard Coit (no relation to Cleveland's or Buffalo's Coits), then the leather-lunged Caller of the old Mining Exchange, but matrimony could not keep Lily out of the fire house. She answered every alarm, smoked, drank and played...
Professor Warren, archfoe of the old gold standard and ardent champion of a managed currency, believes that the dollar must be devaluated until it has a purchasing power equivalent to that of 1926, at which point it would be stabilized in relation to wholesale commodity prices and not to gold. Explains...