Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons for his unpopularity with many of the pious, the speech was of political rather than religious importance. Although his Episcopal training kept him from invoking his Maker, he mentioned Him twice, saying: "The vision of the early days [of the U. S.] still requires the same qualities of faith in God and man for its fulfillment. No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival . . . that would sweep through the homes of the Nation and stir the hearts of men and women of all faiths to a reassertion of their belief...
...store of information. In former years the straw votes conducted by the Literary Digest and the Hearst Press were a great help to him, although he had to make statistical corrections allowing for the fact that certain groups of the voting population were not adequately represented. He has much faith in the house-to-house polls privately taken by bookmakers who place election bets, provided he can be sure of getting the actual returns before they are doctored up to delude the betting public...
...time (1920-35) Governor of Maryland, pioneer advocate of Prohibition repeal; of a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore. In 1932, he lost the Presidential nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1934, he lost the Governorship to Harry Whinna Nice, whom he had defeated in 1919; in 1935, he lost his faith in the New Deal, bitterly attacked...
...previous lectures, Bruening traced the constitutional development of Germany from the end of the war until 1931, showing how financial burdens had imperiled his country's stability. Proportional representation was also blamed for undermining the people's faith in democracy...
...Archer not only advocates the creation of an international money to be called "europa," but has had some of it printed and spends it successfully in Le Puy, where shopkeeper constituents have faith in Felix. In some respects a highly skilled and intellectual man of "Brain Trust" calibre, Deputy Archer has to his credit the invention of several models of quick-firing French cannon esteemed by the Army...