Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mussolini children* Edda is easily the most outstanding in ability, personality, intelligence. This fact tends to support the long-current story that she is not the daughter of Donna Rachele but rather the product of a grande passion of Benito Mussolini with a Russian woman Socialist in the days when he was a powerless, ranting radical...
...last week, Franklin Roosevelt appointed three of the six Executive Assistants with a "passion for anonymity" whom the Reorganization Act allows him. When the news came out one astute reporter dashed over to the white marble palace of the Federal Reserve Board. He wanted to be the first to bring the good news to the President's new economic adviser. He was. Economist Lauchlin ("Lauch") Currie, a man whose economic ideas will henceforth be of No. 1 concern to U. S. business, thanked...
Lauch Currie probably comes nearer to having a passion for anonymity than any other New Deal adviser. First evidence of Currie's growing technical weight in Washington came in the spring of 1938, when he wrote an influential memo on the Causes of the Recession. Its prime theses, now commonplace: 1) U. S. Social Security taxes took so much out of the public pocketbook that the Government's net contribution was reduced during the crucial March-September period in 1937 to a monthly average of $60,000,000 from $335,000,000 during 1936. 2) "Compensatory" Federal spending...
...prove that they had helped to grease the skids that plunged the U. S. into war. There was no evidence that they had tried to. It could not even be proved that they had done so unwittingly. Whatever the Nye committee did or did not prove, the new Peace Passion of the U. S. had to have an outlet. Its outlet was the Neutrality Act of August...
...Fred Dankowske, a footloose youngster from Chicago, drifted to booming Salt Lake City. There he made a real-estate killing, fell in love with pretty Mary Alice Robins, who shared his passion for travel and scenery. On their honeymoon Mr. & Mrs. Dankowske clopped north to Yellowstone Park in a horse and wagon...