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This time it was Tacoma's burly, New Dealish Congressman John M. Coffee, a man who had inveighed with truculent zeal against Franco, scrap for Japan, and big corporations. Nub of the committee's case: Coffee had taken a $2,500 check from Eivind Anderson, a Tacoma contractor, after helping him get a $93,517 wartime construction job at Fort Lewis...
...people gave the new demigods of Paris more fear than faith. Singed by cynicism, yet even more desperately concerned with the issues at stake, the world of 1946 had lost the loud and holy zeal with which it had hoped for eternal peace...
...flourished. The people were clearing paths through the desert of debris (it would take years to remove all) and building temporary camps of wood and rusty tin. In an effort to hide the naked desolation, the city administration issued free seedlings of wildflowers. The Reconstruction Deliberation Committee, with Rotarian zeal, dreamed of making a tourist center of Hiroshima with parks, broad avenues and a memorial hall to world amity. Chief booster was the city's assistant mayor, who played third base on the newly formed baseball team. (Brightly colored posters tacked to dead trees last week announced a doubleheader...
...Campion, as a young Oxford scholar, pleased the great Queen Elizabeth by his Latin and his charm. He might have enjoyed a rich career in the newly established Church of England. Campion chose Rome and danger. He found it improbable, his biographer says with an English convert's zeal, "that the truth, hidden from the world for fifteen centuries, had suddenly been revealed in the last few years to a group of important Englishmen...
...able but melancholy document," realized with a note of regret that the Empire was, indeed, in liquidation. "No one will doubt," he said, "the sincerity and earnestness with which the Cabinet ministers and the Viceroy have labored to bring about a solution of the Indian difficulty . . . with a zeal which would be natural were it to gain an empire, not to cast it away...