Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interests of the company's stockholders are represented by 75,000 shares of preferred having a market value of about $9,375,000, and 850,000 shares of common stock having a market value of about $60,000,000. Thus, on the basis of the composite opinion of investors as reflected in market prices, the company is "worth" $69,375,000. ... To put the matter another way, according to Mr. Brown's exposition each share of common stock was "worth" on December 31, 1936, about $31. Yet Mr. Brown's report points out that the company...
...intervening years a conscientious, 47-year-old, Texas-born scholar, Dr. Charles Callan Tansill, onetime lecturer in diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins University, has been trying to find out what happened before that document was signed-what happened to U. S. finance, the munitions industry, and public opinion; to Wilson, Bryan, Lansing and the miscellaneous group of pacifists and practical politicians who made up Wilson's Cabinet; to the German Admiralty, to international law, even to the hoary traditions of diplomatic usage. On the 21st anniversary of U. S. entry into the War he published his findings. Called...
...gratitude of Europe and the gratitude of the whole world is due at this time, in my opinion, to Hitler!" cried Lord Redesdale, to whom Lord Cecil dryly rejoined, ''If Lord Redesdale happened to be a Liberal, a Roman Catholic or a Jew in Austria, I very much doubt if he would talk...
...this was bound for Barcelona via Le Havre, but Leftist Manhattan dockworkers openly jubilated as they loaded the President Roosevelt, declared some of the equipment was lettered in Spanish. Should a "pirate submarine" sink the President Roosevelt, Spanish observers felt this would have its effect on U. S. public opinion...
...Merion, Pa. last week, baldish, 62-year-old Josef Hofmann, famed concert pianist, father of a 17-month-old son, grinned when a reporter asked his opinion of 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Greta Garbo. Said Pianist Hofmann: "I think they make a good couple. . . . Certainly there must be some attraction. And even a great musician gets bored with notes and bars and sharps and flats...