Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hung a moving and tragic theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
...just ahead was the "squirrel cage"-the staff of experts and writers whose job was to dig up facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would...
...Enthusiasts" are two: quiet Mr. Smith, an engineer of London, exposer of the Protocols of Zion, tenacious fighter in many curious circumstances for justice to the Jews; and Liselotte Lewy, rich Viennese, sufferer by accident with Socialist workers shelled by the Heimwehr in 1934, convert to Communism, zealot of a happy collective farm, who even in the New Order fails to escape the old persecution...
...Paris L'Oeuvre splashed a typical Geneviève Tabouis story that on Sept. 3, when Unity was taking her usual Munich morning walk, two bullets were put into her by 19-year-old Nazi Zealot August Scharenbach on orders from Nazi Secret Police Chief Heinrich Himmler. Actually when Unity arrived at Calais last week, French Police Commissionaire Micouleau was able to announce that there was not the slightest sign of bullet marks on or in Unity's head. "The only thing wrong with her head is that it is turned!" shrugged M. Micouleau after kindly British tars...