Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caucus was New York's homespun, able Irving Ives. As a freshman Senator two years ago, he made a, successful fight against some of the more rigorous measures which Taft had tried to write into the Taft-Hartley Act.† Said Ives: "Rightly or wrongly, the consensus of opinion of many Republicans is that the party under Bob is not going forward. We are in a state of suspended animation...
Charles R. Brynteson '50 and Amory Houghton Jr. '50 went on record against the removal, while Edward M. Foote '51 abstained. Weeks, who did not vote, added his signature to the majority opinion...
...King could be cured by psychological medicine. It is my opinion that he could be cured in no other way. This does not mean, I hasten to add, that there is anything mentally wrong (in the ordinary sense) with a victim of Buerger's disease. Indeed, the disease is an expression of the repression of the emotional elements below the mental level...
...people drink? Pollsters from the National Opinion Research Center, who went around asking, got a variety of answers. Said a Pennsylvania housewife: "People think you are dead if you don't." Said a schoolteacher from rural Wisconsin: "I guess just to be sociable. I don't care for it at all; I just choke it down." As a North Carolina building contractor expressed it: "When I drink I feel important." A Georgia farmer: "Drinking takes me right...
...States uninhabitable." Then he hit "the campaign to make us believe this is 'just another bomb' . . . Deliberately setting out to downgrade the bomb is the worst." Then he flailed away towards the east: "Frankly I am getting damn well tired of those people in Washington and the opinion factories of New York who are forever trying to tell the American people how they should feel, what emotions they ought to have...