Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When scandal broke its levees in Louisiana last summer, began to rise pocket-deep around public hirelings high & low, a cynical citizenry waited to see what would happen to Huey Long's topmost heirs: ex-Governor Richard Webster Leche. New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, New Orleans Hotelman Seymour Weiss...
...glue) was preparing to visit Moscow. Announced before Russian troops invaded Poland, the trip grew in importance as the week advanced, as the significance of joint Russian-German aggression swept over the frightened Balkans. A 55-year-old lawyer, nervous, clever, quick-witted Shokru Saracoglu be gan his public life at 40, when Turkey's Kamal Atatürk was consolidating, his power, when Russia on the north was far from strong. A lusty, exuberant Moslem (married, with two children) Shokru Saracoglu has gone through many reputations in Balkan and Western eyes: once people spoke of his freshness...
...only public opinion in favor of war will take us in. The bankers, the dealers in death are secondary. Even the incidents on the high seas and the insults to national honor are secondary. Furthermore, these factors will be under more effective controls than they were in 1917. For there to be war there must be high-charged hysteria and the blind desire to fight. Without these we remain neutral...
...chances? American public opinion is now much healthier than it was twenty-five years ago. In spite of the crystallized sentiment against the Nazis, it is intent upon viewing all events through polarized glasses. It listens to newscasts with a silent admonition to discriminate in its belief. It reads of atrocities with a conscious effort not to get excited. It maintains a forced detachment from the affair...
...assassination while thousands of persons looked on. Then, when the re-enaction of the crime had been completed, the six men were lined up and shot by a firing squad, which marched off leaving the bodies sprawled in pools of blood. An official invitation had been issued to the public to witness the re-enacting of the crime and the executions, which occurred...