Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should declared instead of undeclared war come to Europe, Washington opinion last week rated 50-50 the chance of President Roosevelt's calling a special session of Congress to repeal or amend the Neutrality Act, which expires anyway next May 1. If he should call Congress, he would probably be embarrassed by revival of the movement for a Constitutional Amendment to require that the nation be polled before entering a foreign war. To oppose such a movement would argue-as loud Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. was already shouting last week-that the Roosevelt Administration is war-minded...
Magazines and Public Opinion (Sun. 7 p.m., CBS) discussed by LIFE's General Manager Charles Douglas Jackson, True Story Editor William J. Rapp, Research Worker Calais Calvert, Auto-driving Instructor Thomas Hayes at Professor Lyman Bryson's dinner table...
...With regard to ... the immorality trials, I am of the opinion that these were not particularly effective in Germany proper, and that therefore we should be careful and not accept every accusation as actual fact. You know that the Jewish world press is very vigilant, and makes use of every unfounded accusation against the clergy as grounds for a savage campaign against National-Socialist Germany...
...Link started his measurement of public taste and opinion as a service to sell to advertisers. He was the first to apply psychologists' findings about the mathematical laws of chance to polling. He analyzed standard tables of accuracy, found that with 5,000 interviews of a carefully selected, economically proportional cross-section, he could come within 1% of the result he would get by polling the entire population; with 20,000 interviews, within one half of 1%. To make his sample representative in a general poll of public opinion, Dr. Link questions 4,000 to 10,000 people (depending...
...Godless"-an international meeting of the World Union of Freethinkers. Founded in 1880, the Union is a coalition of ethical societies, the National Secular Society, the Rationalist Press Association. Freethinker doctrine defines a Freethinker not as godless but as "one who rejects unverifiable authority in matters of religious opinion, accepts reason as the ultimate test and regards it as the right and duty of every individual to think things out for himself. Many Freethinkers are deists; many...