Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wets' chief attack on Prohibition had been that it was no benefit to industry and business, that no part of Prosperity was attributable to its influence. To combat this view was the prime purpose of Dry witnesses. In their zeal they went to what seemed unfair lengths by a counter charge that the Wets favored a return of the saloon. Hardly a Wet witness had appeared before the committee who had not specifically, emphatically, disowned the saloon as a liquor institution...
...lobby's very zeal defeated its purpose. Not twelve hours before the Senate voted on the oil amendment to the tariff bill, the Senate Lobby Committee had uncorked a gusher of damning evidence which fairly swamped the oil lobby's chances of success...
...have been plowing back and forth for several years between New York and the Free City of Danzig. Now, flying the White Eagle of Poland, they will pass up poor Danzig, will call at the new and prosperous port of Gdynia, an artificial harbor constructed by Poles with mighty zeal near the tip of their famed "corridor to the sea." Nothing would please most Poles more than that Danzig, ancient and once splendid city of the Hanseatic League, should die of slow, economic strangulation...
...upon by a political organization. The Soviet has never received a mandate from the Russians to carry out this experiment which is being imposed on the country. For the Communists themselves it is not an experiment; it is a crusade for socialism carried on with a religious type of zeal that couldn't be excelled. What they are trying to do is to create in Russia a communistic society, and to do it almost overnight by decree, irrespective of the previous historical development of the country, of its present economical needs and resources, and of the wishes of the people...
Crusader. Lawyer Hughes's public career began in 1905 when he was named counsel to the Stevens Gas Commission, created by the New York Legislature. A remarkable investigator on fire with public zeal, Counsel Hughes exposed the Consolidated Co.'s gas monopoly, forced rates based on overcapitalization down 20%. With this crusade over, he plunged into the next as counsel for the Armstrong Insurance Commission which dredged up the hidden slime of insurance companies' greed and corruption. Popular acclaim swept him into the Governorship in 1906 over William Randolph Hearst. There he proceeded to execute the pledges of a "reform...