Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plots in Bogota? If the CIA did know what was going on, why wasn't the State Department informed in time? For the umpteenth time, the United States has been put into a foolish position for lack of proper intelligence work, and the Congressmen, as representatives of public opinion, are howling for investigations and blood...
Four peace-seeking Methodist readers laid a modest proposal in the lap of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's mighty, isolationist Chicago Tribune. Would the Tribune please cooperate, they wrote, in "the creation of a favorable public opinion...
When a magazine consistently presents issues in terms of unmitigated evil and snow-white purity, it can searcely be considered a responsible organ of opinion. Such a magazine is the April number of "The New Student." Its articles and editorials are hardly designed to convince: most of those who already agree with policies of the Youth for Democracy will find "The New Student" pleasant reading; those who oppose AYD and the HYD affiliate will find it noxious. And the hesitant center group will probably be unable to swallow the mass of dogma, blatant assertions, and--in instances--half-truths...
...have asked prominent men who, in our opinion, have been deprived of their civil rights to give the inside story on their experiences," he said, "and if rioters attempt to break up the meeting, it will only prove our contentions on civil rights." Meanwhile, Cambridge police said last night that they would send a sizable contingent to the forum...
...convention went on record in favor of the expressed political aim of Walter P. Reuther's UAW-CIO: "the formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party" to speak for labor-liberal forces. Chapter rank-and-file opinion on this stand will be solicited through a referendum the new national board has been instructed to conduct...