Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last few weeks have witnessed a considerable change in the public attitude toward radicalism. At present the better sentiment leans toward moderation. We have begun to realize that wholesale deportations are not the best way to remove erroneous political ideas. In more than one case we find that palpable injustice has been done, and that individual rights have been shamefully violated, by unauthorized raids and arrests without warrant. If we do not want to supply "martyrs" to the radical cause, it behooves us to use clean methods in fighting it. If the immigration authorities are giving the "benefit...
...definite program, and that its success means the undoing of much of the progress that has been made in collective bargaining. Whatever the mystery of the strike may be, the public knows that it is not receiving fair treatment; and the outlaw strikers, standing against the tide of public sentiment, have lost more than half the battle...
Samuel Gompers's article is significant as representing the sentiment of millions of workingmen and is indicative of the hope held by an overwhelming majority of American people that, when the pernicious peace resolution now before Congress is defeated, the President will resubmit the treaty to the Senate...
...True reform will never be effected by law and force, but only by education healthy public sentiment, and moral suasion. We can no more establish by law ideal relations between capital and labor than between husband and wife or between parent and child. All we can do by law is to keep the peace, protect private property, personal liberty and freedom of contract; and punish pal- pable breaches of obligations which freemen have 'voluntarily assumed...
Great Britain and France, it is alleged, are compelled by the sentiment of their Mohammedan colonies to protect the Sultan. But a large part of the Mohammedan world regards the Sultan as a usurper, and renounces all allegiance, civil or religious, to the Ottoman Empire. Mohammedan troops from India and Algeria fought not only against those Germans, but also against those of their own faith. When Mecca passed out of the power of the Turk, not a murmur was heard; yet Mecca, far more than Constantinople, has always been regarded as the center of Islam...