Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of this year he suddenly announced that it was his opinion that commodity prices were too high, although they actually were lower than the level of 1926. He followed this up by doing everything in his power to restrict freedom of markets and the freedom of capital goods industries in the United States. This led inevitably to acute devaluation with the result that, at the most critical moment, the underlying strength of the democratic countries has been greatly diminished and the dangers of war perceptibly increased...
...Revolution." Himself no compromiser, Bachelor Dormoy once had half his great beard torn off in a political argument. Last week as Minister of the Interior and as a militant Marxist there fell to Marx Dormoy a delicate task. He must explain before the bar of French public opinion the meaning of large quantities of small arms and munitions seized by the police recently in various parts of the Republic (TIME, Nov. 29), and he must not seem to be simply a Left politician attempting to smear the Right...
...Nazi state to a fateful consideration of whether it must now resort to inflation. In Nazi oratory the inflation of the German mark after the War by Socialists has always figured as "criminal." If this crime should have to be committed again, Nazis must try to distract German public opinion from it by scoring some particularly huge "success"-such as recovering German colonies or absorbing Austria. Up to 1914 the total number of Germans resident in the Kaiser's colonies was only 24,000-less than the number of German residents in Paris. The Fatherland's trade with...
Silvery-haired former Studio Carpenter Edward W. Wentworth, who had bucked I.A.T.S.E. and lost, gave as "an old man's opinion," that "you've no more chance of doing any good in this situation than a snowball in hell...
Undergraduate opinion was represented on the broadcast by William W. Hancock '38, president of the Debating Council. He declared that America must give up the "notion of any proper place in cooperative action," and restrict its activity to the "American atmosphere...