Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover could probably have merged the Prohibition Party into the G. O. P. by declaring specifically that one-half of one percent is, in his opinion, as strongly alcoholic as any U. S. beverage should ever be. But he made no such declaration, perhaps because he knew that about one-third of the Prohibition Party's vote is in California and likely to be Hooverish anyway; perhaps because he knew that the total Prohibition vote in 1924 was less than one-fifth of one percent of the total vote of the country...
...Nevertheless, inasmuch as the pact objectively imposes certain obligations on the powers before public opinion and gives the Soviet Government a chance to put before the participants in the pact in question of the greatest importance for peace -the question of disarmament, the solution of which is the only guarantee of preventing war-the Soviet Government expresses its consent to sign the Paris pact...
...business leaders who have the largest stake in law observance publicly and privately violate this law and countenance its violation by others. Instead of using their wealth and influence to create public opinion demanding law enforcement, our business men of character and position are the chief support of the master criminal class, the bootlegger...
...history of journalism in Montana would read like the history of ... the most ancient of professions. Its history of late years is a most sordid and ugly record of daily newspapers owned and controlled by The Big Company and prostituted to its dirty work of controlling public opinion. These are the scarlet creatures of Montana journalism. The circulation and advertising of the Butte Miner have increased surprisingly since it announced its independence and appealed to the people to make a stand against further inroads on their rights...
...further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ...