Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credo of politics. The friend was Dr. William Oxley Thompson, 75, for a quarter of a century president of Ohio State University, now its President Emeritus. Dr. Thompson, once Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, had sent President Hoover a belated New Year's message in which he deplored, in mellow, age-ripened words, the present "mob-mindedness" of public life, the self-interest of those who press in upon the President. Wondering how any President could keep his sanity, he exhorted President Hoover to have the patience of Lincoln, to "be true to the ideals of the masses...