Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Mildred McAfee, brisk, athletic, curly-haired head of the WAVES, ardent feminist, suggested that since volunteer lady hostesses "resent" having WAVES, WACs, SPARs and women marines at their servicemen's parties, husbands of hostesses ought to get together and entertain servicewomen. One of her WAVES had told her about one such party, "held in somebody's back yard because they had a swimming pool-it was not an organized thing." Everyone had a good time despite the fact some of the men were old enough to be the girls' fathers...
...sedition trial in U.S. history ended last week. On the evening of the 102nd day, U.S. District Judge Edward Clayton Eicher, 65, went home, died of a heart attack. No one in Washington doubted that a ludicrously undignified trial had hastened the death of a scrupulously dignified judge. An ardent New Dealer, a onetime Iowa Congressman (1933-38) and SEChairman (1941-42), Judge Eicher had done his amiable best with a clumsy Justice Department mass indictment which accused 30 defendants of conspiring to Nazify the U.S. For more than seven .months he had banged a tireless, ineffectual gavel...
...radio trade journals (Broadcasting, Radio Daily) praised the appointment. Kentuckian Porter, a tall (6 ft. 4 In.), convivial ex-newsman (Lexington Herald) is an able lawyer and a seasoned bureaucrat (AAA, OPA, WFA, OES). Friend of Henry Wallace, Leon Henderson and General "Ike" Eisenhower, he has been an ardent New Dealer since 1933. Having learned the ins & outs of radio during five years (1937-42) as Washington lawyer-lobbyist for CBS, he could probably earn far more outside of Government than the FCChairman's $10,000 salary...
Wang suffered another crisis after Japan began the "China incident" (1937). First an ardent advocate of Chinese resistance, he later changed his mind, plumped for a "peaceful settlement" with Japan. One day, while still chairman of the central political council and second in command to Chiang Kaishek, he slipped away from Chungking to Nanking. Japan, looking fora puppet, grabbed him eagerly, made him premier and president of the Axis-recognized Nanking government. For this crowning act of apostasy the Chinese erected in Chungking a life-size statue of Wang, naked and grovelling, for all to spit upon...
...electrical power era" (TIME, July 20, 1931), but also with discovering the basic principles of the radio, radar, electronic tube, X ray, fluorescent light, electron microscope, rocket bomb, etc. All these and the discovery of cosmic rays besides, says O'Neill, were inspired by basic Tesla findings. Less ardent admirers do not go so far: they classify many of Tesla's "discoveries" as mere hunches, lacking in scientific documentation. A fantastically secretive worker, Tesla published little specific data on his researches...