Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadcast to his constituents speeches in favor of advancing the date of Philippine national independence to 1938 or 1939. To distribute to masses of voters the proceeds of a U. S. tax that will end with Independence looked suspiciously as though President Quezon was trying to arouse public opinion against his own plan...
Geneva in 1931 and of which the U. S. is a member be summoned to "resume its labors." What China hoped concretely to wangle, in the opinion of League officials, was a decision to bar members from granting credits for the sale of armaments to Japan. And diplomatically she might forestall any Japanese assertion of belligerent rights to search and seize merchant ships. All this added up to just about the ablest set of moves Chinese could possibly make to stir the moribund League to action, and stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke...
...secret is it that the London Times, stuffiest of all London dailies, not only represents the official opinion of the British Government but prepares many of its leading editorials with Government and Palace assistance. Seldom is that fact as frankly admitted as it was last week. Following the blunt announcement of Nazi Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath at Stuttgart fortnight ago, interpreted abroad to mean that the German Government would soon ask diplomatic immunity for three "cultural attaches" to take the place of the three newspaper men recently ousted from Britain as Nazi agents (TIME...
British scientists as a class are less afraid of their colleagues' opinion than U. S. scientists, and at their meetings they adhere less to the orthodox line of matter-of-fact reporting. In his presidential address Sir Edward, who is 81, indulged an old man's privilege of reminiscing at will. He has been going to B. A. A. S. meetings for 56 years and he remembers the shifting course of B. A. A. S. opinion about organic evolution. That was what he talked about last week...
Last winter when business and stockmarket were soaring the balance of expert opinion held that stocks would suffer a spring slump, then recover to soar through the fall. Sure enough, the slump started in March, and, assisted by cold water from President Roosevelt, the crack-up of the British commodity boom and the unhappy state of the nation's labor relations, reached bottom in June. For two months thereafter all was well enough, save for the extreme thinness of stock and bond trading. On Aug. 14 Dow-Jones industrial averages reached a high of 190 for the summer. Then...