Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, he had run for Vice President on the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette's Progressive ticket in 1924. His liberal zeal undimmed by defeat, he set about leading a Senatorial investigation of conditions in Pennsylvania coal fields. No legislation resulted, but plenty of dust was raised...
Though Methodists and Congregationalists are more famed for radical zeal, there are nevertheless plenty of Presbyterian liberals. To those members of his great, cautious, rock-like church Editor Chaffee will address himself, avoiding theological controversy. Says he: "We seek unity in the Presbyterian Church, not divisions." Guided by a council of able Manhattan pastors, The Presbyterian Tribune will be backed by Presbyterians whose names he declines to reveal...
...public zeal for suppression of crime is discounted because of our private willingness to defend any criminal for any offense. Of course not all lawyers accept criminal cases. We have a petty larceny bar and a grand larceny bar. Some will defend bandits who rob banks from the outside, and others will defend directors who rob them from the inside. Every Jack in crime has a Jill at the bar waiting to defend...
Under the political amnesty "My Leader" pardoned: 1) insults to Adolf Hitler or the German Government; 2) offenses against "the wealthy or prosperous," provided the crime did not originate from "convictions hostile to the race or state";* 3) crimes committed from "excessive zeal" to further Nazi purposes. To ease the plight of Nazi innocents caught in the Roehm Mutiny and not yet "purged" by shooting, "My Leader" especially decreed last week that all imprisoned mutineers shall have their cases "sympathetically re-examined...
Against Dr. Lopez's election last winter there was no opposition. He really began the campaign four years earlier when he assumed active charge of the Liberal Party which had not elected a President in 44 years and was considered Colombia's political mummy. With artful zeal Dr. Lopez built up tall, big-boned, Enrique Olaya Herrera, then Colombian Minister at Washington, into a popular candidate and secured his election (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930). This year President Olaya took such strenuous steps to return the compliment and secure Dr. Lopez's election that his chief opponent...