Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wendell Phillips' phrase, about John Brown having "letters of marque from God," accurately describes the religious zealot who conducted midnight reprisals of lives and livestock against the proponents of slavery in "Bloody Kansas" and who, in 1858, withdrew to Canada to formulate a design as unusual as it was drastic...
...worked in Paris; by night, the two became wrought up over the evil effects of politics on the diplomatic and consular services. Finally in 1895 they drew up a bill for the organization of the foreign services on a merit basis. Politicians laughed heartily, wondered who this young Zealot Carr was. Senators Morgan of Alabama and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts introduced the bill regularly from 1895 to 1905, and saw it tossed aside equally regularly. In 1905 Elihu Root became Secretary of State with a desire to reform the consular service. He discovered that Mr. Carr, then...
...found there, and padlocked the buildings in accordance with the not yet legalized decree suppressing anti-Fascist gatherings of every sort. Followed swiftly an order by Secretary General Turati that all Italians and foreigners must salute the Fascist banner whenever and wherever it is displayed. The Secretary, a feverish zealot, also began a tour of Italy to examine Fascists suspected of disloyalty to the party and eject them from it. Until this is complete no new members wil be received into Fascismo...
...Citizens' Committee of Passaic would like to see Albert Weisford out of the way, so they bellow "Communist" at him. Communist though he may have been; he keeps silent about it. He is a clever organizer rather than a demagog, a cynic rather than a blithering reform zealot. Yet on the platform he can twist the emotions of the masses with his vibrating voice, his puny, gesticulating hands, his restless pacing up and down...
...course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower of righteousness, a leader of a great cause?or, if you prefer, he is a bigoted little reformer, a benighted, misguided zealot...