Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violent attacks which have been launched against you because of your endeavor to range every available force on the side of prohibition are, in my opinion, wide of the mark, and are based either on hostility to law enforcement, or on ignorance of the precedents which support your action." It was signed by Gifford Pinchot. It referred to the President's executive order permitting state constables to be sworn in as Federal prohibition enforcement agents...
Attorney General Sargent was hastily ordered to turn out a legal opinion on the President's order. Mr. Sargent told the press...
...That agriculture needs the aid which the Government alone can give is agreed upon everywhere and by every person. . . . There may be?indeed, there is?wide difference of opinion with respect to the measures that ought to be employed...
...commission is of the opinion that it would not be practicable at the present time to limit the ultimate war strength of a country. On the other hand it affirms that it is possible to limit the land, sea and air forces which are permanently maintained in peacetime by various countries or which are capable of immediate use without preliminary mobilization measures. This principle is enunciated without prejudice...
...German delegation submitted a significant memorandum on this point: "The suggested examination of methods likely to bring rapid assistance to a country attacked should not, in the opinion of the German delegation, be based on the present position of armaments, which is temporary. The examination should have as a starting point a state of disarmament resulting from the conference such that no county would be so powerful as to be in a position to assert its strength against that of the League of Nations." Disarmed Germany naturally favors the rapid disarmament of other powers to an "equality of weakness" with...