Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Byrns, afire with political zeal, added to the agreed total of 1931 appropriations $51,000,000 for future payment of War claims, and $199,310,597.12 appropriated in the first or special session of this Congress for farm relief and back postal pay to railroads, arriving at a total of $5,124,239,830.28. This sum, he argued, exceeded last year's appropriations by $459,003,062.24. He made much of the fact that White House appropriations under President Hoover had jumped $91,840 from the $43 7, 1 80 President Coolidge got along with. Said he : "Even...
...There are several thousand witnesses to be examined. The indictments alone comprise 69 large volumes. But, courage! I hope?and I prophesy, basing my prophecy on the accelerated tempo of the Regime?that with energy and zeal this trial will come to an end in less than half a year...
Originally the French Anti-Alcoholic League combatted not wine but spirits. But zeal for eliminating high-power drinks, to which most Frenchmen are opposed (in principle if not always in practice) has now spread to a campaign against wine (considered by the vast majority of Frenchmen a perfectly "natural," nourishing and beneficial drink...
Aflame with zeal, Senator Smoot was about to ask the Senate to reverse itself on Customs censorship of obscene books...
...Author. Sir Oliver (Joseph) Lodge, 78, white-bearded, hale, once famed for his researches in wireless telegraphy, for the last 20 years has been famed for his zeal, his optimism, in psychic investigations. He believes that his son Raymond, killed in the war, sent messages to him. Survivalist Lodge is not a Spiritualist ; he is a member of the Church of England: believes not differently from but more than his fellow members. He lives on Salisbury Plain, near Stonehenge, near Lady Mary Bailey, famed airwoman. Other books: Life and Matter, Raymond, or Life and Death, Ether and Reality, Evolution...