Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Declaring that muddy thinking on the subject of capital punishment has clouded the issues involved, A. K. Reading, LL.B. '12, District Attorney of Massachusetts, stated to a CRIMSON reporter last night that he was personally convinced of the justice of the supreme penalty. "In my opinion," added Reading, "the question is not debateable, but I shall meet Clarence Darrow in Symphony Hall in an effort to clear the public mind of misconceptions on this important subject...
...natives as changeable weather. Properly it is one with the subject that has been ostrasized conversationally since Mark Twain pronounced that dictum that people have no right to complain when they never do anything about it. Still it insists on attracting attention because each year in the opinion of experienced observers it far exceeds any previous performances. And it is impossible to minimize the importance of a fact upon which comparative strangers are eager to give information at the least encouragement. For the persistency with which it is discussed is a testimony that here is the one factor in daily...
...opinion, the best guarantee of security for all people is imme- diate and complete disarmament. . . . The disarmament commission [of the League of Nations] is merely decorative and has not advanced disarmament a single step. . . . Should our plans for complete World disarmament seem too complex, at first, that is because complete disarmament has always been treated as a forbidden subject and has never been thoroughly dealt with...
Eight years ago motor-maker Henry Ford bought a magazine. Mr. Ford, like many another national figure, wanted an organ which would distribute his own distillate of the world-wide torrent of printed talk about him. The sheet was called The Dearborn Independent. It contained articles of opinion, ethical, political, factual: also Mr. Ford's page. These bits of philosophy (collected in a volume called Ford Ideals) were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which...
...what about these conferences at Geneva and Locarno and Washington? What have they accomplished? Virtually (in the opinion of Author Kenworthy) nothing...