Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sincere opinion the Man of the Year-the one outstanding industrial Man of Peace in 1937-Myron Taylor of U. S. Steel. . . . STEPHEN M. WALFORD Wallingford, Conn...
...Minister Neville Chamberlain's new and most cordial relations with II Duce. London's leftist tipster sheet The Week had Greece's King George "afraid he has cancer. His mother Queen Sophie died of it. And before that her mother too. ... If the British doctors' opinion is unfavorable, then the King will abdicate in January." At dingy but swank Brown's Hotel, where George II was staying, Leopold III called and Their Majesties took...
...opinion of discriminating collectors and dealers generally, that the unfinished Museum Bathers is of about fifth-rate quality for a Cézanne-in contrast to the newspaper statement that it is his 'greatest masterpiece'-explains why this picture went begging for a buyer for more than five years. ... Its former owner, in the presence of witnesses, offered to sell the picture to me for $80,000. . . . The painting's presence in Philadelphia represents not the intelligence and cultural levels of the general population, but the evil of having an absentee dictator of the local official...
...between McCahey and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly there was too close a partnership to suit watchdogs of Chicago's schools. Board Member Mrs. William S. Hefferan had quoted ten civic leaders: "The precipitous appointment of Dr. Johnson is opposed to leading educational opinion...
Unruffled, Superintendent Johnson had his office redecorated in the modern manner (cost to Chicago taxpayers: $5,000), subscribed to a clipping service and immediately plunged into a strenuous campaign to try to make a monkey of leading educational opinion. He issued a series of decrees changing the curriculum, setting up separate vocational and academic "tracks" in the high schools, eliminating mathematics from the list of required high-school subjects, directing that pupils do their homework not at home but in the classroom. When infantile paralysis delayed opening of the schools this fall, he staged an education-by-radio stunt. Last...