"Overzealous" Quotes from Famous Books
... the situation, with kaleidoscopic picturesqueness, took on another hue, and Hoover found himself defending Chang's interests from the overzealous attempts of some of the foreign owners to get more out of the mines than was their fair share. In making the original contracts it had been agreed to have a Chinese board with a Chinese chairman, as well as a foreign ... — Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg |