Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular subscriber. My secretarial position gives me an indisputable right to read his copies before he does. Of course, sometimes he seems not to grasp the truth of this technicality and becomes somewhat "peeved," most emphatically stating that your "mail clerk is an ass." My personal opinion is that your mail clerk is O. K. I receive my boss's copies of TIME within a reasonable time and if my boss gets his copy always one week late, it is due absolutely to his inability to understand my rights as his secretary...
...documents had been accumulated up to last week by the Federal Trade Commission in its investigation of the business and political methods of interstate public utility companies, ordered by the Senate last winter. President Coolidge, whose appointees the trade commissioners are, said last week that in his opinion the ton and the ten volumes contained nothing requiring federal action, that state regulators had power to deal with such utility practices as might seem suspicious in the evidence. Chief among the trade commission's discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots is the distribution of text books and public utility "catechisms...
...myself against this opinion. I believe that if India is tired of white rule, and if the British are tired of ruling India, then India must be prepared either to be ruled by the yellow race, or by those of the brown races whose religion is other than Hinduism, or by Soviet Russia...
Frankness pushed to the brink of indiscretion characterized, last week, an address delivered in London by the Honorable Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, Mahara-jadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.** Said his Highness: "It is no use shutting our eyes to the fact that there is in India today a volume of opinion, small, perhaps, but yet not negligible, and which is growing every day not only in strength but intensely, which desires to get rid of British rule at all costs...
...Amendments which he has made the basis of his article. I positively declined to talk to him for publication referring him to carefully prepared articles by me which completely reflected my views. Upon his insistence and purely for his own information, I consented to explain exactly why, in my opinion, there was no analogy between alleged violations of the suffrage amendments in the South and the actual violation of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Prohibition Act in all parts of the country. That was all; and nothing that I either thought or said could afford justification for the article which...