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...Franklin Roosevelt made Norman Littell, a fresh-faced, 40-year-old Seattle lawyer, Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. A passionate crusader for good government, young Norman Littell tackled his job with zeal and zing. But he never quite hit it off with his immediate boss, Attorney General Francis Biddle. Worse still, zealous Lawyer Littell got into the habit of denouncing Washington bungling in public. His zeal finally got on the nerves of a formidable array of Old New Dealers, including Harold Ickes, Jesse Jones, Francis Biddle and Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, ex-brain-truster turned lawyer-lobbyist...
...Student Federalists are also distinguished by their enterprise and zeal...
...this reason the spotlight has shone hard and hot on Democratic Candidate Harry S. Truman, the junior Senator from Missouri. Anti-New Deal newspapers have examined the Truman record and background with the zeal of ballistics experts, the energy of crime reporters...
Title V is specific: it prohibits political argument "of any kind designed or calculated to affect the result of a [federal] election." It was written in an excess of zeal by anti-New Dealers to keep the Administration from making propaganda hay with the troops...
...extraordinary achievement she has accomplished with the translation of all my books, from Buddenbrooks [1924] up to the last volume of the Joseph series. I am fully aware of the tremendous difficulties which my not exactly simple way of writing puts in the way of her mediatorial zeal and faithfulness, and I cannot appreciate enough the great credit Mrs. Lowe-Porter has earned with her linguistic reproduction of my work for the English-speaking public. Not always have the reviews done her full justice, and that is why I wish to express my appreciation publicly. My literary standing in this...