Word: zealotism
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...revolutionist at deep-dimpled 19, flung a bomb, was exiled and imprisoned, grew morose and introspective, escaped, flung another bomb, was again exiled and imprisoned, became hard-featured and hollow-cheeked, again escaped, flung no more bombs, led the frugal, self-denying, intensely industrious life of a typical Communist zealot, rose steadily in the Party to her present dizzy eminence, where she is unquestionably the world's record money-woman of all time. The Jewish Telegraph Agency exclusively announced last week from Moscow that the world's record woman is a Jewess...
...Oregon, young Dan Poling did not care for liquor. He cared for it still less in 1912 when he ran for the Governorship of Ohio on a Prohibition ticket. Had he been elected he could not have taken office because he was too young (28). But he, a young zealot with the build of a lumberman, was merely propagandizing for his cause. Afterward he became secretary of the famed "Flying Squadron," a Prohibition-boosting committee which in 1914-15 visited and pleaded in each & every state. He enjoys a close Dry friendship with Chain Storeman James Cash Penney, friend...
Miss Sutter, now 35, was once a Pennsylvania school teacher.* She entered the Prohibition Bureau in 1922 when Roy Asa Haynes, a "loan" from the Anti-Saloon League, was its director. Mr. Haynes. zealot, yearned to-"sell" Prohibition to the country by direct advertising, by special school courses. Miss Sutter shared his ardor but it was not until this year that Congress supplied wherewithal for the experiment. She had prepared a mass of Dry material which she was to take to the National Education Association's meeting last week in Atlanta when, a little prematurely, she revealed her purpose...
Continued the Senator: "President Hoover in his speech to the Associated Press minimized, if not actually extinguished, the importance of the major subject of Prohibition by declaring it was a mere segment of the investigation. . . . I am no fanatical Prohibitionist. I am not an unreasoning vituperative zealot. I have never permitted any ecclesiastical despot* to control my thought or conduct. But I am for the Prohibition law and for a thorough inquiry to see if it can be enforced and, if not, what are the remedies. . . . But both the President and his Commission have gone as far afield as possible...
Married. James Cash Penney Jr., son of the chain store tycoon and Prohibition zealot; to Miss Elinor Snyder of Manhattan and Rye, N.Y.; in Manhattan; by Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, president of the International Society of Christian Endeavor, onetime official of the Anti-Saloon League...