Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orators realized it too. Remarkably little was said about the good opinion of the corner drugstore. Remarkably much was said about the unknown corner of unknown streets in a foreign land, where unknown people would read their papers...
...same day, Taylor was stopped. He read a message from a Mrs. Frances Swadesh, a Manhattan housewife,* who had wired her opinion that the people "can congratulate themselves on having one honest Senator." With that, Maine's Owen Brewster was on his feet. The statement, he said, impugned the integrity of the Senate. Under the rules, Taylor must sit down. He did, and the filibuster was broken. At long last, the bill went to conference, where Senate leaders sternly hammered out a law which met military requirements in almost every respect...
Sewell Avery's roundhouse punch (TIME, June 21) was still knocking them out at Montgomery Ward. Last week George Whitney and Harry Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. left Ward's board because of "certain differences of opinion." Director Lawrence Appley, who is president of the American Management Association, promptly followed suit. Counting the resignations of President Wilbur Norton (by Avery's order) and four vice presidents (by choice), this brought Ward's total loss to eight top men. Still there was no sign that 74-year-old Chairman Avery had changed his single-track mind...
Fighter's Lot. In Manila, the Supreme Court thought & thought, finally delivered itself of the opinion that a dead rooster could be declared the winner of a cock fight provided it had died while on the offensive...
...minority opinion, written by Justice William Douglas, wryly recalled that "U.S. Steel has one-third of the rolled-steel production of the entire country. The least I can say is that a company that has that tremendous leverage on our economy is big enough...