Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kitchen. Washington under Harding, Herter recalls, was "like a dirty kitchen, where cockroaches abound." Herter quit, moved to Boston as co-owner and salaryless co-editor of the old magazine of opinion, the Independent, once graced by Henry Ward Beecher. Active as a Republican, he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1930, became its speaker in 1939, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Named chairman of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid, he led his committee abroad on a survey trip, laid much of the groundwork for the Marshall Plan legislation. So strict...
...said, "it does not exist in the Communist East alone." The "evil spirit" manifests itself in the East as "open totalitarianism, backed by an all-powerful political party." whereas in the West it takes the form of "creeping totalitarianism, backed by powerful institutions, such as press, private enterprise, public opinion and arrogant wealth." Moreover, the Communist regime of East Germany may be regarded as "a tool of God which fulfills a definite function according to the Lord's plans: the function of a punishing...
...long been a company religion, preached with such saccharine slogans as "Working Together to Bring People Together" and "Togetherness by Telephone." But A. T. & T. practices what it preaches. It holds "town meetings" to tell about the company, sends executives to visit stockholders, continually polls the public about its opinion of the telephone company. A quarterly report from the New England Tel. & Tel. Co. listed this three-month activity in "customer relations": 330 talks by company officials, 1,271 company films, 501 talks with films, 587 displays, 7,305 customer interviews, 167 lecture demonstrations, 54 exhibits, 67 dial demonstrations...
Furthermore, Dudley men are still unconvinced that a location in the Quincy House area would be the best for commuters. According to Joseph, one of the students sampling opinion on the matter, half the men polled felt that the advantages of the Lehman site were more important than being close to the Houses...
Informed public opinion is in itself an effective deterrent of labor racketeering, he stated. "It is my belief that the enemies of the union members are official indifference and money," Cohn asserted. Corrupt labor bosses are often financed by employers who find bribery cheaper than paying fair wages, he lamented...