Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York World expressed its transatlantic opinion in this question in a tart editorial...
When the Pope or some mighty cardinal issues a statement, the world knows that it represents the opinion of the Roman Catholic Church. But who is the spokesman of the populous Protestant churches? Not, for example, the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, which represents only one sect. There is an organization, however, whose pronouncements are few and carefully, prepared; it is the nearest approach to a Protestant opinion interpreter in the U. S.; its name is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and its president is Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, merry, easy-to-understand...
...dissenting opinion, Justice McKinney held with the Scopes defense and with Henry E. Colton of the Tennessee Academy of Science (which pressed the appeal) that the language employed by Farmer J. W. Butler, the bill's hillbilly author, was "so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application"; that therefore the bill "violates the first essential of due process of law." There are eight Biblical versions of "the story of the Divine Creation," some of them quite contradictory...
...Story is not laid in Abe-deen* but in Vienna. It begins with a speech: "In whose hands is the press and therefore public opinion? In the hands of the Jew! Who has piled billions upon billions . . . ? The Jew! Who controls the tremendous circulation of our money, who sits at the director's desk in the great banks, who is the head of practically all industries? The Jew! Who owns our theatres? The Jew! Who writes the plays that are produced? The Jew! Who rides about in automobiles, who revels in the night resorts, who crowds the cafes and fashionable...
...maintain their pledged word without serious detriment to their enjoyment. The only cases where a pledge to "obey law" will accomplish its purpose will be among those who are willing to cooperate in all particulars with the spirit of the faculty's policy. Until the mass of student opinion conforms with his last category, no authoritative pressure can successfully uproot drinking in college, and the fact that a pledge is considered necessary is witness that such is not the case at present. College authorities may point the way, but only united student action can solve undergraduate problems. It remains...