Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drift of both opinion and practice in the 20th century is indeed toward the centralized welfare state, but moving with the drift is not necessarily the fitting role for a nation's leaders. And continued deficit financing, with its burdensome interest charges and its push toward inflation, can only weaken the fiscal underpinnings of an economic system that has done better by more people than any planned economy ever dreamed...
Economist Sumner Slichter wrote that "in the opinion of many persons" millions (perhaps 8,000,000) would find no jobs in an economy which, like the service veterans, had to reconvert to peacetime production. Afraid that federal subsidies would lure idle vets to campus, the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins warned that vets would breed "educational hobo jungles." Sociologist Willard Waller, recalling that World War I Veterans Hitler and Mussolini first recruited veterans, wrote ominously: "Veterans have written many a bloody page of history, and those pages have stood forever as a record of their days...
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...been suffering for years from the original impression he created here as a gabby, to-hell-with-the-consequences liberal . . . Hubert Humphrey is still a pretty glib and cocky fellow, who looks like a cross between Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Cagney, but the Senate has amended its opinion of him upward in the last six years." Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt said that Humphrey comes closest of all top Democratic presidential possibilities to having that "spark of greatness" that the next U.S. President will need.* And from California's Congressman James Roosevelt came word that Mother knows best...
While the Kamikaze still swirled over the Pacific, public opinion in the U.S. stormed against a regime and a culture that could send men to certain death in suicide attacks. After war's end lifted their censorship, the Japanese joined in the controversy, took potshots at their own side with charges that recently drafted civilians had been sent out as Kamikaze flyers to save the professionals. Authors Inoguchi and Nakajima know better. They were staff officers in the Imperial Navy's First Air Fleet under Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, who organized the first avowedly suicidal attacks. From...