Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Model Assembly of the League of Nations at the University of Michigan will point the moral of international amity to a fascinated, if small audience. Inspired with enthusiasms as diverse as the points of the compass, aided by officials of State, it assembles with fitting ceremony to weigh opinions and swap stories. At first glance, the affair seems to be without the pale of ordinary collegiate interest. But at the present time, when colleges are admittedly the fountain from which all blessings flow, their taking the initiative in the unselfish service of moulding public opinion becomes a privilege...
...Geneva last week the Opinion of Elihu Root proved to be, in effect, a statement of the conditions under which the State Department now believes it possible to obtain the U.S. Senate's consent to U.S. adherence to the World Court. When this matter was last mooted, in 1926, the Senate produced famed "Reservation V"?considered by most Europeans and by nearly all South Americans as an unparalleled piece of arrogance. While agreeing that the U.S. should adhere to the Court, the Senate stipulated in "Reservation V" that thereafter the Court must not without the consent of the United...
...Appeals noted that the League aims "to enlist the support and co-operation of legal advisers, statesmen and legislators in effecting the lawful repeal and amendment of State and Federal statutes which deal with the prevention of conception." Such activity is not reprehensible, in the tax board's opinion, but neither is it charitable, scientific or educational. Hence Mr. Slee must pay taxes on at least part of his League donations...
Legislative Opinion...
...Judicial Opinion...