Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be brought to a vote. Not for a moment did anyone believe they were bluffing. Only Missouri's Clark, A. E. F. colonel and a founder of the American Legion, knew anything about war at first hand but his colleagues did not let their ignorance dampen their zeal. Senator Bone led off with a two-and-a-half hour harangue...
...their zeal and all their drives, ministers of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. got only 65,147 new communicants in the year ending last March 31-31,822 fewer than the year before. The Presbyterian membership list stood at 1,959,923, a decline of 27,368 communicants. All this was reported last week by the church's Stated Clerk, Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge...
Confident Romans cooled themselves amid last week's heat with Italy's newly named "Ethiopia Ice Cream"-chocolate with pistachio nuts. Even Benito Mussolini's most scornful critics, Europe's Socialist and Communist Press, admitted that he has now fired his people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned...
Weighing against all this arithmetic is the fact that U. S. wildfowling as now organized constitutes an industry which supports tens of thousands of human families. Also weighing is the fear that, were the duck season ever closed down entirely, even for one year, conservationist zeal would prevent its ever being pried open again...
Below the Commissioners, zeal and experience are more evenly balanced. General Counsel John J. Burns, like Commissioner Landis, was a Harvard Law School professor. Self-made son of Boston Irish immigrants, he was elevated to the Massachusetts Superior Court bench before he was 30, quitting three years later to join the New Deal...