Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ardent Willkieite, in 1941 he urged Republicans to forget party and support Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy. He was credited with changing many a Republican's mind on intervention bills. But on domestic issues he is squarely anti-Administration...
...What is now required is the ardent support of our forces by the people at home. I am not referring merely to the production of equipment or to the purchase of bonds, but rather to the need of a stern resolution on the part of the whole people of the United States to make every sacrifice that will contribute to the victory. The soldiers must feel that the home folk-East, West, on the plains and in the mountains-are completely united in their determination to see this thing through to an overwhelming victory in the shortest possible time...
...South Africa's Parliament, ardent Nationalist Dr. Daniel François Malan moved that the Union reorganize as a republic outside the British Commonwealth. Last month a weekly partly owned by the Union's Finance Minister Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr had proposed a republic within the British Commonwealth (TIME, Jan. 17). In the Union Parliament, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts replied directly to Dr. Malan, indirectly to Minister Hofmeyr. Said Smuts: "I expect nothing from your republic. I have been hearing about this republic for the last 25 years and I don't take it seriously any more...
...ardent feminist and a neutral at the beginning of World War I, she got into politics as Wilson's supporter, made Liberty Loan speeches, drilled with voice specialists, wrote the short stories and novels that made her fortune: Just Around the Corner, Every Soul Hath Its Song, Land of the Free, Gaslight Sonatas, Humoresque. Her 1915 marriage to Pianist Jacques Danielson was kept secret until 1920, then made a newspaper sensation when Author Hurst announced that she and her husband kept separate apartments. She traveled in Europe, made three visits to Russia, came back enthusiastic. Said she: "Pervading...
...marched through Minneapolis last week on their way to jail. They went because they are followers of the late Leon Trotzky. Almost all are members of a minuscule political group known as the Socialist Workers Party. On the march they were led, as always, by volatile Vincent R. Dunne, ardent Trotzkyite,onetime head of Minneapolis' volatile Local 544 of the A.F. of L. Teamsters Union. Two years ago they were convicted of sedition, not because of any overt act, but because they believe in the proletarian revolution...