Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ports, banned from their regular North Atlantic runs because of the combat-areas provision of the Neutrality Act*, these vessels could travel to these ports under the Panama flag, could, moreover, carry arms. And although President Roosevelt announced he was holding up the transfer pending investigation, he expressed his opinion that the transfer did not violate the Neutrality Act because: 1) the U. S. would have no jurisdiction over the ships, and 2) they could not carry U. S. crews...
...Undoubtedly, Scapa Flow was not submarine-proof and it would have been submarine-proof, in my opinion-and I am sure it is the opinion of the whole service -if Mr. Churchill had been in office a few months before the war. There would have been no question of any state of unpreparedness in any of our ports...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 ruled that this year's Thanksgiving be celebrated a week earlier on November twenty-third, his opinion as former editor decided the policy of the Crimson. But the force of tradition has struck again. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor Saltonstall, muttering something about the good old days of our forefathers, contrarily changed the date back to November thirtieth...
Last night a meeting was held by the John Reed Society, in defense of free speech; and as is the case in most Socialist or Communist societies or nations, no laws of the right of expression of personal opinion were observed...
...conclusions of this sort of reasoning can be criticized on two grounds. First, the demand for expressions of opinion only in the class-room is a direct contradiction of a basic tenet of American education--objectivity. Such interpretation in education can be justified only by assuming that all the facts about the war have been proved, which is not the case. Then, too, school-boy minds are very easily swayed; the teacher's words are the gospel truth. Certainly a teacher has a right to present his interpretation of the facts. But he must not substitute this interpretation...