Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ardent atheists with a proselyting itch got a greenish light from the Federal Communications Commission. Disbelievers, the FCC ruled, were entitled to all the radio time they could...
...rival, Ezequiel Padilla, grandiloquent apostle of international cooperation, traveled on a shoestring. His backers, a few conservative businessmen and some ardent amateurs, could not match the turnouts of Alemán's labor unions and bureaucrats. But those who shouted "Viva!" were truly enthusiastic. Padilla's eloquent speeches attacked traditional Mexican "imposition" of the Government candidate, flayed the Communists, subtly played for Church support. Oldtimers compared Padilla to the U.S.'s William Jennings Bryan -a magnificent orator, an impractical politician. Padilla's outspoken wartime cooperation with the U.S. had not endeared him to the average, nationalist...
Last week the Browder star was shining even brighter. Off to Russia to join Fallen Angel Browder was his most ardent disciple, a shy, little-known, well-heeled U.S. businessman named Abraham A. Heller, who was also the longtime financial angel of U.S. radicals...
...biographer refers to him as "the miracle man of railroad wage movements." He considers himself a political leader on the liberal side, likes to quote Single-Taxer Henry George. He has lent his name to several left-wing organizations, some of them Communist-hued. He was an early and ardent supporter of Franklin Roosevelt and thought several times that he would become his Secretary of Labor...
...proposal for immediate transfer of 100,000 Jews from Europe, ardent Zionists saw only a denial of immigration to a million other Jews they want to settle in Palestine. "The central problem of the homeless, stateless Jewish people," they cried, "has been left untouched." Arab leaders were even more incensed. They saw the admission of 100,000 refugees as "an invasion. . . . Our reaction will not be words...