Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speeches in the Senate on the need for aviation development, for more airports. He has a bill pending to enlarge the Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate's most airminded Senator, might well be rated its aeronautical expert. His zeal for a high tariff combined with his professed ignorance of tariff matters led to his disastrous use of Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the president of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association (TIME, Oct. 28). Eyanson was sent to his office to tell him what Connecticut manufacturers wanted out of the Tariff...
...League's zeal against Col. Foran apparently overreached itself. Its hirelings in search of liquor and gambling evidence raided the Foran hunting lodge at Mt. Airy, N. J. They emerged with photographs of a bar, a cash register, beer barrels, gin bottles. They found no liquor, no slot machines. New Jersey's Republican Senators Kean and Baird, incensed at the League's "chimneysweep" tactics, rose up to demand that the President reappoint their man Foran to office on Feb. 1 when his present commission was to lapse...
CrrrrrrrrrrASHbooooooooMMOOOORRooooooooomm! Turrets, walls and belfry rocked and rose, crumpled, crashed, subsided. Six hundred years ago the good St. Sergius began what was now ended. Pouncing with zeal on the debris, each of the 5,000 Comrades picked up as big a chunk of stone as he could carry, ran panting and puffing with it as fast as he could to the brink of the wimpling Moskva, plumped his burden in, watched exultingly while it sanka fitting deathday tribute to LENIN...
...There never has been greater zeal and activity . . . great handicaps. . . . When Congress is ready to consider and adopt legislation to carry out the Administration's recommendations for more adequate law enforcement machinery, those whose duty it is to enforce the law will be able to accomplish more. . . . Determined and unceasing pressure from the President for enforcement. . . . Such deficiencies as exist . . . are not due to lack of will . . . either at the top or the bottom...