Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's power irrevocably dead? Administration men had said it would be, until toward the eleventh hour they produced an opinion from Attorney General Murphy stating that the power might legally rise again, after lapsing, should the Senate pass this money bill later on. Until a weary hour Senators debated this point, finally agreeing to vote on the bill this week...
...Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax made an address to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a body set up during the Paris Peace Conference for the study of contemporary diplomacy. The British press unanimously hailed the speech as the truest expression of British opinion ever made by a member of the Chamberlain Government: "What is now fully and universally accepted in this country, but what may not even yet be as well understood elsewhere, is that in the event of further aggression we are resolved to use at once the whole of our strength in fulfillment of our pledges to resist...
...Agitprop (Agitation & Propaganda) Committee, is generally regarded as the heir-apparent to Dictator Stalin's job. He became next in line when a bullet removed the original runner-up, Stalin's "Dear Friend" Sergei Mironovich Kirov. The idea that Heir-Apparent Zhdanov can have a personal opinion about anything not shared by the Kremlin would make even dour Comrade Stalin laugh...
Last week readers of Pravda were treated to this joke in a front-page spread of Comrade Zhdanov's "personal opinion" that the Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations are deadlocked, that France and Britain are deliberately dragging them out in order to have an excuse for making a pact with Germany. Wrote Tovarich Zhdanov archly: Some friends disagree. One friend who obviously did not disagree was "Dear Friend" Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili Stalin, who took this typical way of prodding on the plodding powwows...
Meanwhile, under the pressure of the New Deal and public opinion, the entire Colorado coal field had been unionized. Paradoxically, it hurt Rocky Mountain Fuel. Union men who once had demanded R. M. F. coal, were now willing to buy from any union mine. R. M. F. sales leveled off, ran a deficit year after year...