Word: vehemently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manuel 3G, the first speaker, discussed "Hitler's Rise to Power" from an historical view. He was quite vehement in expressing the opinion that the mistreatment of the Jews in Germany by the Hitler regime was merely an age old vent; that it was really a symbol of the economic struggle which was going on in Germany today, as well as in every country in the world. He said that the Nazi regime really was decreed in the summer of 1932, when Von Papen, who was then in power, attempted to seize the power of the Prussian state. When Sevening...
...less vehement was Rev. Dr. Clarence Edward Noble Macartney of Pittsburgh, leading Presbyterian conservative. To suggestions (mostly by liberals) that Assembly money could better be spent on good works at home, he replied with fine Scotch logic that the only legal way to omit the Assembly would be to have it meet in full special session, decide that it should not be held. Added he: "What a year for the Assembly! Think of the witness we can make! There is the pagan Laymen's Missionary Report, and our own board's answer to it, with no ringing word...
...prevailing system of selecting college Freshmen by awarding a given number of credits for each of several unrelated and often useless courses covered in preparatory school has often been criticized. It is noteworthy, however, that one of the most vehement denunciations of the plan should come from Dean Holmes of the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...Congress: He is a vehement individualist, voting his own convictions, following no one. leading no one. The Western insurgents can count on him no more than can the Old Guard. He plumes himself on his Progressivism, yet he is narrowly nationalistic to the core. When he entered the Senate he promptly enlisted in the "Battalion of Death" against the Versailles Treaty. Because like many another Californian he hates & fears Japan, he believes in the biggest possible Navy for the U. S. and therefore fought the London Naval Treaty (1930) almost singlehanded. He dislikes all foreign powers, suspects them of sinister...
Author of the beer bill was Mississippi's "Lame Duck" Collier. Ways & Means chairman, longtime Dry. On it the committee held a fortnight's hearings which in vehement arguments, loud controversy and ardent pleadings resembled many another Wet & Dry set-to at the Capitol. There was, however, this important difference: the committee's mind was made up in advance to act on beer. Thus, with their case already won, the Wets restricted their testimony to a minimum. Brewers supplied trade