Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Empire-to absorb it. Shaw eventually postulates his thesis, which is a criticism of democracy most succinctly expressed in the somewhat muddled Shavianism spoken by King Magnus to his Queen: "America is a nation of wops talking about the Pilgrim Fathers ... it is a world of wops." The consensus of Malvern audiences was that the second act was a bore, the first and third amusing...
Sirs: America, judging by the consensus of public opinion is invested with a so-called "crime wave" just now and a great many people are beset with doubt as to the cause of it. Everyone seems to have a different idea. We have been enacting more rigorous laws giving longer sentences which means that the prisons are filling up. Now we put two men in a cell intended for one. Some live in the hallways. Then come the riots among the prisoners. Our next step is to build more prisons-and so I ask you what will...
...consensus of the convention, expressed in a unanimous vote of confidence in outgoing President Thayer, was that sumptuary legislation, including Prohibition, baffles medical practice, that alcoholics are at times a medical necessity...
...consensus: Labor sometimes praises organized religion, more often indicts...
...newspaper ownership or control (threatening death to the Freedom of the Press) were the headline subjects at the seventh annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in Washington last week. Few important U. S. newspaper editors are their own masters nowadays. Nevertheless, what they say illuminates the consensus of newspaper opinion. ¶ Editor Willis John Abbot (Christian Science Monitor) asked that the society inquire into the activities of the power trust with reference to newspaper ownership and to make a report at its 1930 meeting, by which time more data will be available on the program...