Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech at Burgos, opposing civilian bombings, had been fully reinstated. If there was a moral to the tale, it was that the Rightists had been obliged to recognize the superior abilities of a general who thought bombing civilians useless as well as immoral-an opinion shared by many military men who regard winning a war as more important than killing people...
...apply its slogan, 'in union there is strength,' to its press. . . . A most promising start has now been made. . . . The possibilities are unlimited for building a national press to offset the great trustified propaganda machine which the employing interests have established for the manufacture of public opinion...
...Literary Digest straw poll, although it came to a disastrous end when it predicted that Alfred Mossman Landon would be elected President in 1936, demonstrated that public opinion polls have a commercial value. Result is that at least half-a-dozen organizations today are periodically polling the U. S. public on what it eats, what it thinks, whether it expects to come to a good end. First modern scientific pollitician was big-eared, sharp-nosed Dr. Henry Charles Link, director of the Psychological Corporation's Psychological Service Centre in Manhattan. Dr. Link, who thinks mankind needs more religion...
...give money to "a person in the service of the United States." Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, who had cracked down on Internal Revenue workers for contributing to the cause of Senator-reject McAdoo of California (TIME, Aug. 8), huffed, puffed, said such a difference of opinion proved the necessity of rewriting the campaign funds...
...week's end, N. A. B. President Neville Miller branded the report "orphan, unauthorized and misleading." With a fine disregard of Predecessor Ethridge's words, President Miller declared: "All shades of public opinion have freely attested to the fairness of American radio in its handling of news, political candidates, and controversial issues...