Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spain founded its right, all the regions which had been, or should be discovered, were bestowed as a free gift upon Ferdinand and Isabella. They, and their successors, were uniformly held to.be the universal proprietors of the vast territories acquired by conquest in the new world. * * * It was an opinion, perhaps as ancient as trie crusades, that the pope, as the head of the church on earth, had competent authority to dispose of all countries inhabited by heathen nations, in favor of Christian potentates * * * This high power being accorded to the pope * * * titles acquired upon the supposition that...
Though German public opinion was in harmony with U. S. thought, last week, in blaming Bolivia most, the following highly significant editorial occurred in Berlin's Bocrsen Zeitung or Stock Exchange Times...
...gesture of disgust. Since His Imperial Highness' wife is a sister-in-law of the assassinated Tsaritsa Alexandra, who was the chief patroness of Rasputin, no subject would well have been more delicate. When it was made clear however that the questioner did not share the commonly received opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very strong! And he was a great healer. Two, three or four times he saved the life of the Tsarevitch-the little son Alexis. So his mother...
READINGS IN PUBLIC OPINION : Its Formation and Control-Edited by W. Brooke Graves, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science in Temple University-Appleton...
Under the various chapters-"The Formation of Personal Opinion," "The Nature of Group Opinion and of Public Opinion," "Organized Religion," "The Press," "Music," "The Radio," "Chambers of Commerce," "The Demagogue," "The Political Party," and "Public Opinion," etc.-Professor Graves reprints articles by competent observers. Walter Lippmann, chief editorial writer for the New York World, is the most quoted man in the book. Others are Sigmund Freud, John Broadus Watson, Otto Hermann Kahn, Bruce Barton, Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Oswald Garrison Villard, Clinton Wallace (Mirrors) Gilbert, William Bennett Munro, and several...