Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution by Senator Norris providing that the U. S. keep the plant, operate it, sell the electricity to citizens for miles around. The Norris resolution also authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to use Muscle Shoals electricity in making nitrates for fertilizer, but the wording of the resolution reflected an opinion that synthetic fertilizer processes are too costly. In the House, contrarily, a committee was discussing a bill to lease Muscle Shoals to the American Cyanamid Co. Senator Norris attacked this bill from afar, warning that it was but a maneuver to put Muscle Shoals in the hands of power pirates...
...honor and decency keep. . . . The whole transaction . . . had in view an ulterior and sinister purpose. . . . I feel that this money should be returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion that there are plenty of Republicans who will be glad to contribute from one dollar up to any reasonable sum, to clear their party of this humiliating stigma...
Last week Egyptian public opinion continued hostile to the new treaty proposed by Great Britain which would confirm while slightly relaxing her intervention (TIME, March 12). As a result no Cabinet could be formed to succeed that of Sarwat Pasha who tendered his resignation last fortnight...
...week-end exodus". The last common meeting place to withstand the pressure of progress was compulsory chapel, and at last, mirabile dictu, even this has been abolished. With no time or place for informal contacts and general discussions, there is at present little opportunity for the formation of public opinion on any question affecting the common interest...
Along with the disappearance of that intangible force, public opinion and the undue emphasis placed on outside activities, another unfortunate tendency has developed. When a student feels that he is just one of 1600 members of an undergraduate school at New Haven and is not conscious that he is an integral part of his class, the natural reaction is to seek out men of his own stamp rather than resort to the company of the fellow next door. Instead of having a small and solid class unit, the tendency is for similar men of like interests to get together...