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Landis, one of the most prominent of Felix Frankfurter's "happy hot dogs," was expected to prove a radical zealot. Instead, he mellowed under the mantle of office. Some of his oldtime liberal colleagues became bitter (he was eventually attacked by the New Republic), catalogued him as a conservative, denounced him for having lunched with Wall Street bigwigs. Although he worked prodigiously to keep the SEC's complex mechanism functioning, he did not launch any great crusade...
...hope to see the blessed rule of the Son-of-Heaven extended over somewhat more of China. Manchukuo was "stolen" or "achieved" by his predecessors, according to the point of view. To say that the Prince is a "Liberal" means chiefly that he is not a frantic Japanese zealot who wants his country to bite off more of China than it can chew. To establish, as a sequel to "Manchukuo," another "kuo" of moderate size is Prince Konoye's idea of being Liberal...
...Manhattan one night last week discussing the depravity of President Roosevelt's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court. Most of the nation's unofficial denouncers that night were content to vent their spleen in talk, go modestly to bed. But Richmond Pearson Hobson was a professional zealot who, in 30-odd years of windy crusading against alcohol, narcotics and un-Americanism, of drumming up fears of Japanese invasion and Communist infiltration, had never forgotten that he was once the No. 1 U. S. Hero. Before he retired, Richmond Pearson Hobson sat self-importantly down, wrote the President...
...Admiral and longtime Minister of Communications, was one of Italy's most conspicuous naval heroes of the War. In Fascism's early days Father Ciano was the first Italian of national prominence to join struggling Editor Benito Mussolini and become a Fascist. Son Galeazzo was a Fascist zealot before he was out of his teens. After a law degree at the University of Rome, he became theatre and book reviewer on Nuovo Paese, the first Fascist newspaper in Rome, fought a duel with a Communist whom he gravely wounded, later signed the fellow up as a Fascist...
...brisk grey-haired zealot is Joseph Lewis, 46, onetime shirtmaker who calls himself "The Enemy of God." As president of the Freethinkers of America, Inc. (30,000 members at $1 a year), Mr. Lewis does a thriving business in anti-religious books and sex manuals, busies himself at all times waging guerrilla warfare against the churches of his Enemy. Legalistically Freethinker Lewis hardly ever wins a battle. In the New York courts where he does most of his fighting, the judges are likely to be good Roman Catholics or devout Jews. Last week the Enemy of God was again trying...