Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just between us," President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers of America asked reporters confidentially last week, "what does the public think?" One of those present answered, in a note to his editor: "Where there is public opinion, it is for Martin. He has a better pressagent, a pretty fair radio technique, and pearly teeth...
Significant results of the week's polls conducted by scientific testers of public opinion...
Released last week by Dr. George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion were the results of a poll on the question: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Mrs. Roosevelt has conducted herself as 'First Lady?' " Her husband was approved by 58% of the voters in a recent Gallup poll (and by 62% of the major party voters in the 1936 election). Mrs. Roosevelt won approval from 67%. Unlike her husband she got a majority of favorable votes in the upper income group...
Perhaps not by sheer accident the last official opinion of outgoing Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, published last week, tweaked the Jew-baiting nose of Nazi Germany. The State Department had asked the Attorney General to advise whether to deny, on grounds of moral turpitude, a visa to a German Jew who, in order to escape from Germany, had lied about his money to Nazi officials...
What the outcome of this ban will be was far from apparent last week but nobody was ready to believe that Argentina will permanently do without U. S.-made chewing gum and man-sized motor cars. Best-informed opinion was that the restrictions would probably remain until Britain's sales to Argentina can pull far out in front of her competitors' or, more likely, until Argentina can wangle the U. S. into buying more of her products...