Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, Japan's Matsudaira rushed around to French Ambassador Charles Corbin and sought to curry favor by promising that Tokyo would support a French demand for naval parity should Paris ever make it. Meanwhile the U. S. and Britain publicly embraced each other in a series of fervent hands-across-the-sea declarations by Secretary Cordell Hull, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham and Lord President of the Council Stanley Baldwin who ringingly declared at Glasgow: "As far as this country is concerned, so long as I have a responsible position in His Majesty...
...time. Inspired by the inherent goodness of all men and convinced of their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist he was without a forerunner or a model. Above all he was a describer of beauty--a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature...
...Vargas to Brazil's presidency in 1930, no one had a longer and stronger finger in the proceedings than Senhor Aranha. Since then in Brazil he has been called "The Strong Man." The grateful Vargas made him first Minister of Interior and Justice, later Minister of Finance. A fervent admirer of President Roosevelt, Senhor Aranha promulgated an "Economic Readjustment Act," abolished the gold milreis and repudiated the gold clauses in foreign utility contracts...
...want to make it personal? I lied to the Unknown Soldier about a possible good consequence of the war. . . . The support I gave to war is a deep condemnation on my soul. . . . Men cannot have Christ and war at the same time. I renounce war." Such a fervent outpouring of words came last week not from some pacifist who makes a living on the lecture platform, not from some battle-scarred veteran who had staggered back from the depths, but from a brisk and business-like Man of God named Harry Emerson Fosdick. During the War Dr. Fosdick had "stimulated...
...fiery little Austrian Chancellor of Germany joined the clamors of discontent that recently echoed round the world but his defiant utterings sounded a different note from those of the Reds he hates so vehemently. While millions of his countrymen listened to his fervent denunciation of the discrimination against Germany by the former allied powers, the Nazi leader declared that the day of "spineless submission...