Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently the sentiment of Yale and Harvard is overwhelmingly in favor of the creation of a National Police force for both of the teams taking the affirmative side in the debate last night won victories over the negative...
...freedom of thought and speech is the breath of life of a real university. I regret that Hanfstaengel finds he cannot return and I think it unfortunate that some people have interjected political issues into an intimate family gathering. It emphasizes acutely how strong is the power of sentiment...
...Rothschilds did found five banking houses in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. Shrewd enough to guess that Napoleon could not last, they supported the Allies for reasons of good business rather than sentiment. Nathan Rothschild, no bosom friend of Wellington, did bid for a loan to France after Napoleon's first defeat, sent the market down by selling his own government bonds when his bid was refused. Statesmen like Metternich had, as the picture shows, agreed with Baring Brothers, London bankers, to handle some of the bonds privately for their own profit. When Rothschild sent the prices down...
...required to relinquish colonial possession and that the United States had a moral duty to continue her occupation. Moral duties and constitutionalities have little weight with Senator Smoot's sugar lobby, however, and considering the obvious desirability of increasing local and Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian, must be swept away. Philippine motes are ocularly harmless compared with the beam of depression. The McDuffie Bill remains a rough-hewn measure, but, even if Congress insists on eating...
...made very clear in recent books-which my own observation in Europe this last summer confirms. The time to safeguard peace is now. Such measures as that sponsored by Senator Vandenberg to eliminate profits from the munitions business will help-but beneath all else there must be the Peace Sentiment. . . JAMES W. FIFIELD...