Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program without adhering to the bureaucratic state. He had an abundant faith in human goodness and a tolerant distrust of human frailties. The strength of this precarious balance of thought lay in its being made up of a belief in the value of reason, an immense ethical fervor, a concrete and massive knowledge, and a firm insistence on our limiting ourselves to what is compassable. "When things become too big, they are taken beyond the realm of the compassable. They don't work. The human mind cannot contain them. They become tyrannical," he wrote...
...people of this country owe a great debt to Louis Brandeis. If our present body of public servants consists, even to a small extent, of officials and experts who tackle their jobs with the fervor of conviction; if the typical member of such a body is a cross between the lawyer, the economist, the engineer; if he combines an objective approach with an eye for action; if he is turning from a passive to an affirmative liberalism--then a large part of the credit must go to currents that Brandeis set in motion. In losing him, America has lost...
...most vigorous in C.I.O.'s prolific family, the electrical union had grown like a beanshoot under the smart leadership of young, tense James B. Carey, who is also secretary of C.I.O. and very close to C.I.O.'s ailing President Murray (wh hates Communism with a pungent, Catholic fervor). The electrical union was held up as an example to other, duller unions. Only one thing marred the picture. It was infested with Reds...
Today if the rank & file of the Army is to be roused to a patriotic fervor. Franklin Roosevelt rather than Henry Stimson will have to do the rousing. But good morale is composed of many things besides fervor, and in all these things Henry Stimson is effectively busy...
Winston Churchill ended with high fervor: "Little did Hitler know when in June 1940 he received the total capitulation of France and expected to be master of Europe in a few weeks and of the world in a few years, that ten months later, in May 1941, he would be appealing to the much-tried German people to prepare themselves for war in 1942. When I look back on the perils which have been overcome, upon the great, mountainous waves through which our gallant ship has been driven, when I remember all that has gone wrong and also all that...