Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made chief of the reorganized Federal Farm Loan Bureau. In his inconspicuous office at Washington, he has received malcontents, and their political spokesmen, during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy and impartial advice has won him the confidence of all but professional farm agitators. In his opinion, there would have been no Farm Problem this year but for the election. McNary-Haugenites could not, in his belief, have hoped to fix "fairer" prices than the prices currently obtaining. None knows better than Banker Meyer the disasters farmers have faced, but he regards farmers who had not recovered from post...
...Hobart Inskip, His Majesty's Attorney General, sternly: "The Lord High Chancellor [Baron Hogg of Hailsham] himself is satisfied that Lord Burghley takes an active interest in public life and is well fitted to hold the office. . . . I consulted His Lordship before making the appointment. . . . It was his opinion that a young man of standing should receive an opportunity in early life to gain experience in public affairs...
Official investigators sent by Minister of Commerce Dr. Julius Curtius reported in substance: "An accident." One Herr Hugo Stolzenberg owned the gas and was only a trifle vague as to where he got it. He has more, several additional cylinders. Correspondents were of the opinion that some of the cylinders contained leftover German War gas stock, and thought that others might have come from the phosgene plant set up by German technicians in Russia at the request of the Soviet Government...
...North Sea, others declaring that such a procedure would poison untold millions of fish, and still others recommending that the safest thing to do would be decant the gas into new, strong tanks and sell it as quickly as possible to widely spread consumers. Eventually the consensus of opinion was that the phosgene should be disintegrated by the admixture of other chemicals into a harmless residual product...
With uncommon candor the opinion of the experts was made known, last week in Tokyo, through an authoritative but of course not official statement for the Staff...