Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nation United. At home Avila Camacho continued to press, with obvious success, his campaign to unite the people behind the U.S. Pro-Axis sentiment waned visibly as university groups ceased heretofore open pro-Nazi activities. Liberal elements looked approvingly on General Cárdenas' appointment...
Just before the U.S. press began to sing a diapason of approval for the U.S. declaration of war-in the week that closed the night before Pearl Harbor-interventionist sentiment in the press had slumped to its lowest point since last spring. According to the survey of James S. Twohey Associates it stood at 54%-as against 84% eleven weeks earlier...
...Methodist shift was paralleled in other churches-and the declaration of war found the clergy even stronger in their support than they were in 1917. This united sentiment was attested by the official heads of each major Protestant denomination in replying unofficially to a questionnaire from TIME. Significantly, however, not one of them directly answered TIME'S question as to whether most ministers feel America is fighting for the cause of righteousness-i.e., whether they were likely to preach a holy war. Apparently the clergy have not forgotten how they got their fingers burned after World...
...then explain the Tribune's success? -its gain of 264,000 circulation in the last five years?-its undeniable influence on isolationist sentiment in the five Midwest States which it calls "Chicagoland?" The late, great Charles Dana prescribed one sure-fire recipe for circulation: get your paper talked about. Of that art Colonel McCormick, with his blatant methods, is a past master. The Tribune's subtitle ("The World's Greatest Newspaper") is an outstanding example...
Alumni, casting sentiment to the winds, tried to force Old Zup to resign, even offered him a $6,000-a-year pension. When he refused, they tried to have him ousted. Last summer, in a bitter showdown, Zuppke won over Athletic Director Wendell Wilson, head of the anti-Zuppke faction. Since then, it has been common campus gossip that the little Dutchman, his honor vindicated, would resign at this season...