Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month in office. Assistant Secretary of State Payer made news last week with a fervent speech at Washington's University Club. With many an oratorical flourish he discussed the New Deal, laid down its "Ten Commandments." Excerpts...
Next day two statesmen from the American continent-Tennessee's fervent Cordell Hull and Canada's vehement Premier Richard Bedford Bennett-joined forces to put President Roosevelt's thesis across. For several days the British dominions, all far more radical than the Mother Country, had been warming up to the special Roosevelt brand of "price raising." All speeches made were kept secret, but at one point Secretary Hull brandished under the knifelike nose of French Finance Minister Bonnet a copy of that thick pamphlet, the Conference agenda, asking with passionate emphasis whether there were not scores...
...droned on for 38 minutes, read what sounded like a catalog of every job which a world conference could possibly attempt. Speaking for France broad-shouldered, big-voiced Premier Edouard Daladier called sharply for dollar and pound stabilization beside the stable gold franc. Most polished, most eloquent and most fervent was U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull's appeal for World co-operation and lower tariffs, but it did nothing to clear up the Conference fog as to what the U. S. Delegation is empowered specifically to propose. During the whole week only three delegates made really sharp...
...decision reminded the world last week of the rich rewards which frightened Europe was willing to pay 120 years ago to anyone who could beat Napoleon. The present Duke, still a fervent foxhunter at 84, is the grandson of the Iron Duke, was three years old when the latter died. The title Duke of Wellington and the right to bear the Union Jack on his coat of arms is but a small part of his inheritance. He is a Duke in Portugal, a Prince in Holland and recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad...
...felt the horrors of war were not willing to have their descendants endure the same experiences. "Peace, peace at any price, peace by every means, a peace above all" was the slogan of the conference, as expressed by the presiding officer. Thinking people everywhere are echoing these sentiments with fervent hopes...