Word: zebulon
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...record, both men are classic American types, sprung to eminence from provincial poverty by their own exertions: Daniel from a soda-jerking job in Zebulon, N.C., Reston via an impoverished childhood in Scotland and a U.S. boyhood in the Midwest, partly spent working as a caddie. Readers in search of profundities and nuances will be more satisfied with the portrait of Reston, perhaps because Talese implies that Daniel's surface is Daniel. Reston's Horatio Alger idealism and Establishment pieties Talese wryly ascribes to a successful immigrant's fervor for his new-found land. In assessing...
...only as they felt inclined. The Governors of Georgia and North Carolina particularly were obstructive to a degree that, in a more centralized nation, would have been treason. Governor Joseph E. Brown of Georgia pettishly sent the whole state militia on furlough at one crucial point in 1864. Governor Zebulon Vance of North Carolina hoarded huge quantities of military supplies. Strode observes that "the President must have reflected somewhat bitterly what a difference these hoarded commodities would have made to Lee's men during the grueling siege of Petersburg. But he had been unable to persuade the Governor...
...guard of honor. Long lines of clerks and students filed slowly by, many of them not quite sure who it was they had been summoned to pay last homage to. In the same hall where Lenin and Stalin had been finally honored lay the mortal remains of American William Zebulon Foster...
Died. William Zebulon Foster, 80, mild-mannered, iron-willed chairman of the U.S. Communist Party from 1932 to 1957; following a series of strokes; in Moscow, where he had been under treatment since January. A Massachusetts-born Irishman whose outstanding talent _was for survival, Foster went to work in a stonecutter's shop at ten, became a Socialist at 19, proved himself as an organizer by leading a bitter 1919 strike of more than 365,000 A.F. of L. steelworkers. Joining the Communist Party two years later, he was three times its candi date for President (his best showing...