Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...censor, appointed by Presidential executive order: 50-year-old Hoosier-born Byron Price, competent executive news editor of Associated Press. Because the press had long expected a New Deal zealot as censor, its first reaction to the Price appointment was one of relief...
Forward: Small station KCKN in Kansas City, Kans. last week was broadcasting a serial reading of Clarence Streit's famous book Union Now. A levelheaded zealot, Streit argues for immediate federal union of the U.S., England and the democratic dominions as a means of winning the war and forming the nucleus of a World Government. Significant fact: KCKN, in the heart of the long isolationist Middle West, is owned and operated by Senator Arthur Capper, an anemometrist who has never had to wet his thumb to know how the political wind blows...
...French Equatorial Africa De Gaulle got results. He sent René Pleven there. René Pleven was a zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...
...unique. Emerson managed to keep cheerful through the tragedy of the Civil War; so did Whitman, after a fashion. Victor Hugo managed to live through the days of exile and the agony of the Franco-Prussian War: "Moi, qui me crus apôtre!" [I, who believed myself a zealot...
...climax of a life devoted to battling Demon Rum, he introduced the law that became the 18th Amendment, helped the tall, droop-mustached Minnesota zealot, Andrew J. Volstead, write the Prohibition enforcement law. But as saloons became speakeasies and gangsters turned to bootleggers, Volstead got all the knocks. Almost nobody had it in for genial, kindly Morris Sheppard. He was no fanatic, and everyone knew it. He simply thought liquor was poison. Texas went right on drinking and re-electing Morris Sheppard...