Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate had approved peacetime conscription, but the bill provided the biggest burst of fireworks in 1940's Presidential campaign. Morning of the final day, Georgia's smooth-faced Senator Russell popped up with an amendment jointly sponsored by Lousiana's Senator Overton, ardent New Dealer and onetime Huey Long ally: ". . . Whenever the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy determines that any existing manufacturing plant or facility is necessary for the national defense and is unable to arrive at an agreement with the owner of such plant or facility for its use or operation...
...losing end of the freshman-sophomore tug of war (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). Promptly christened "Prex Dex," long-faced Dr. Keezer lived up to his unorthodox introduction. When a visiting Japanese professor left his boots outside his door in Keezer's house, "Prex Dex" blacked them himself. An ardent fisherman, he gathered Reed students in his basement for classes in fly-tying. He also brought intellectuals of all political shades to talk to the students, advertised the college so skillfully that it soon had to turn applicants away...
...Department to the control of Bob Jackson and Solicitor General Francis Biddle. Smart, loyal Mr. Biddle is a Jackson libertarian who seldom sees the President, but writes many a memo for him and his counselors, and is already swatting at Wendell Willkie. Public relations adviser to the President is ardent New Dealer Lowell Mellett, onetime Scripps-Howard editor, newest member of the group, notable because like Wendell Willkie he is a native of Elwood...
Belatedly the secret services decided that Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domville, 62, onetime chief of Naval Intelligence and, since his retirement in 1936, an ardent Naziphile, guest in Germany of Hitler, Göring and Gestapo Chief Himmler, head of The Link (British pro-Nazi cell), was a dangerous character. They found and arrested him at his home in Roehampton, jailed also his half-German wife and their son, Compton...
Only six weeks before, Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., had officially started his campaign. Launched by groups of ardent political amateurs, his campaign had become a political children's crusade...