Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fully aware of his role as Dry Hope- the man President Hoover expects to pull Prohibition out of its manifold troubles- Mr. Youngquist stated that he had never taken a drink himself. He added: "I am a dry politically and personally, but I am not a fanatic on the subject...
"It should be sweeping, i.e., should include not only the shipbuilding companies and their activities which have shocked the President, but should extend also to lobbies, carried on by employes of church organizations and of fanatic pacifists' machines which do not make plain the sources of their funds or prove...
Luther (Cob-Film). The German producers who made this compressed biography of Protestant Martin Luther had to be careful. They could not make him out an inspired and righteous prophet or Roman Catholics might stay away. They could not, on the other hand, suggest as some theologians have, that Luther...
He will not give any money to any church the pastor of which indulges in tobacco. Yet no fanatic is Mr. Kresge. Offered a drink, offered a cigar, he refuses, but politely.
Andrew J. Volstead, once an inconspicuous Minnesota lawyer, has never deeply regretted the fame that came to him when he tagged his name upon the National Prohibition Act. It was a nuisance, of course, when intoxicated traveling salesmen called Mr. Volstead up in the middle of the night to curse...