Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Garvin Trust Company of Philadelphia. Also, the Policy Committee has invited the cooperation of several organizations, who will broadcast the conditions of the contest and, when finally a plan is selected, will have their members vote for or against the chosen plan, as a test of public sentiment...
Michigan is a state that has voted dry by substantial majorities several times since 1916. Previous to that it was rapidly becoming dry by local option. Senator Couzens virtually threw his gauntlet in the face of this sentiment by declaring that 5% beer was neither worse nor more intoxicating than tea or coffee...
...appears, however, that only one member of the Negro staff, the installation of which had been ordered by Director Frank E. Hines, had appeared at Tuskegee when the Klansmen made their demonstration. He was not a doctor but an auditor, and quickly departed when sentiment in the town demanded he do so. Actually there were 15 Negro patients and a white staff present. Dr. Moton left town shortly after the incident. It was declared at the Institute that no "direct threats" had been made on Booker Washington's successor. Reports declared, moreover, that he was not in favor...
...during the War period performed notable financial feats for the Government. He was personally in charge of the huge Liberty Loan flotations. After the Armistice, he made a striking appeal for the cancellation by this country of the Allied debts to America, on the basis of not only sentiment but enlightened self interest. It is not yet time to say his view was incorrect; Great Britain alone of our debtors has made arrangements to settle her debts with us, and most of the Allied debts are notoriously uncollectible, and may always remain so. Mr. Leffingwell was more successful...
...possible. The tenacity with which the Southern bankers have clung to their collection charges for out-of-town exchange has provided most of the protest against the Reserve system below the Mason and Dixon line. Such charges have proved, however, a burden and a nuisance to American business, and sentiment in general is with the Reserve in its par collection campaign. Recently, the National Association of Credit Men, in its convention report, endorsed the stand taken upon this subject by the Reserve system...