Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never sent publicity to a magazine or a newspaper in my life unless I was asked for it. I've never answered a critical book review. I feel like I've had my 'say' in the book and the reviewer is entitled to express his opinion. But when a constable hits me three times over the head with a blackjack when my head is turned is something I don't derive profit from. It is something I can't get over easily...
...frank with you, I was hit because I expressed my opinion about local conditions, in a local paper. I expressed my opinions then and I'll express them again! The blood of my people has been shed in three American wars that America might be a free country and I sure as hell will carry on that tradition. Three people came to me and told me not to start a newspaper. I wondered why! Now, I know why! "It is dangerous for your reputation," one said. I say to hell with a reputation (what is a reputation?) when...
White politicians in 16 Southern States that lack Negro professional schools, expecting this burst dam to bring a flood of applications from Negroes for admittance to whites' schools, sputtered and fumed. None was more vehement, however, than Kentucky-born Justice James McReynolds, who wrote a dissenting opinion (Minnesota-born Justice Pierce Butler concurring). Stormed Justice McReynolds: "I presume Missouri may . . . break down the settled practice concerning separate schools and thereby, as indicated by experience, damnify both races...
Messrs. Wilson and Phillips proceeded to teach the teacher. Both were alarmed at the sharpness with which Franklin Roosevelt-and U. S. public opinion-has slapped at Dictators Hitler and Mussolini, and by implication has frowned upon Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of "appeasing" Fascism. Instead of being told that they should revamp their views to fit Washington's, they persuaded the President to leave foreign policy out of his Chapel Hill speech (TIME, Dec. 12), and further to soften his democratic dander last week...
...Moines the Henry Wallaces were either renowned for their independence, or cussed for their stubbornness. Henry Wallace I, a Presbyterian preacher, launched Wallace's Farmer ("Good Farming. Clear Thinking. Right Living.") at the age of 60 despite the best professional opinion that it would fold in six months. In his 70s he told off Roosevelt I about Agriculture. Into his 80s, to half of Iowa, he was beloved "Uncle Henry." His son Henry Cantwell Wallace was a big, frail man who wore himself out as Harding's Secretary of Agriculture in jurisdictional disputes with Herbert Hoover...