Word: idealist
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...relentless, has no heart, no pity for his enemies. He ruled Spain as Premier for all but a few weeks of the past two years, was abruptly dropped as "too radical" by chubby, Church-loving President Niceto Alcala Zamora (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week new Premier Lerroux, a Bryanesque idealist, had held office for 21 days, had never dared to ask a vote of confidence from the Cortes and still dared not ask one. He knew that in a straight vote Man-With-No-Soul Azana and Snake Prieto would soon beat him. Wringing his hands, he announced the resignation...
Just above the northwest corner of the U. S., at an editorial desk from which he peers across the Pacific into the Orient, across North America at Europe, and across the years into the Future, an earnest, tireless idealist named Robert James Cromie publishes the Vancouver Sun, dominant daily of western Canada. Publisher Cromie is even more widely known than his newspaper. As a reporter, he takes the world for his beat, traveling all over it frequently, meeting and observing its famed persons and places. When he returns home he writes editorials for his paper, ambitious in conception, abounding...
...manufacturers and producers not only the five-day week but also the far more radical six-hour day. As an emergency measure to combat unemployment the proposed law would be effective for only two years. Its author was smart little Hugo Black of Alabama, lawyer, War veteran, economic idealist. Senator Black & friends predicted his bill would supply 6,000,000 men with work, on the theory that the employer who wants to keep his production at current levels must hire 25% more workers to obey the law. President Green of the A. F. of L. jubilated...
Most interested spectator at President Roosevelt's conference with the Senators was a lean-faced, youngish man of 44 with a mop of dark brown hair just turning grey and deep thoughtful eyes-an economic idealist. Taciturn, he sat and listened most of the time. He was Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and the official upon whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power...
...sent police to arrest the Administrative nine. Seven were caught. One, Alfredo Garcia Morales, hid in the Argentine Embassy. Baltazar Brum, facing the end of parliamentary order in Uruguay, met police with a revolver in each hand, wounded two detectives and took refuge in the Spanish Legation. Soon Idealist Brum came out of "dishonorable" hiding and died by his own hand on his own doorstep. His wife stoically carried his body inside. In Montevideo, Brum's death hurt Dictator Terra's prestige...