Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week with no speedy conclusion yet in sight, it became evident that a major battle was on between the two groups with opinion sharply divided between undergraduates. Disinterested observers believed that the influence of the A. F. of L. or the C. I. O. would become stronger and that settlement would not be reached until the organization was allowed full rights...
...attack-was there any indication that the bombing of the Panay was a mistake of the sort which Minister Hirota seemed to imply. Nonetheless, since the Japanese apology fulfilled all the demands made by the U. S., Secretary Hull quickly accepted it, merely calling attention to this difference of opinion in his reply. The State Department's note presumably closed the incident but made it apparent that a repetition might be much less easy to explain away. Secretary Hull also adroitly reminded Japan that, for its account of the "origins, causes and circumstances of the incident...
...primarily responsible for that defeat, he would be a towering figure of politics, but in fact-while many figures, including Senators Wheeler of Montana, Borah of Idaho, Burke of Nebraska and Vice President Garner, contributed in one way and another-Franklin Roosevelt largely wrought his own defeat by antagonizing opinion in Congress...
...Generalissimo was overwhelmed and overruled by Chinese public opinion. He was obliged to lead China to certain defeat. Most amazing was the outward confidence of every public act and word of the Man & Wife of the Year-particularly the tone of her cables from Nanking to the U. S. press (TIME, Nov. 23). Until the evacuation of Nanking, Mme Chiang was writing about how "my air force" was going to bomb Tokyo, carefully sparing "the women and children...
...sugar-men now fear that this year's consumption will not equal even the original 1937 quota. They were distinctly irked, therefore, when Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace last week set a new 1938 quota of 6,861,000 tons. Said the Wall Street Journal: "In the opinion of the trade a quota of 6,861,000 tons is too large to permit any sustained recovery in prices from their present low levels." Prices demonstrated that the opinion of the trade was right. Raw sugar quotations in Manhattan (including .9? duty) sagged...