Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to be President, would not be a candidate for the nomination. Two years ago he wrote of the Presidency as the final sacrifice," adding: "The restraint, artificiality and loneliness in the White House . . . seems the life of a pet in a gilded cage." But Baker-for-President sentiment does not easily down. Last December a South Carolina friend wrote to urge candidacy upon him. Mr. Baker sidestepped thus: "The times clearly present a great opportunity for service. . . .The situation of the world changes from day to day. Nobody can safely forecast what his duty may be when June comes...
...garden, and by the Englishman as a looking glass. He is an American journalist who has braved the agonizing spectacle of English illogical self-deception in every sphere of British activity and inactivity and has been able to write down his observations with conviction, but with complete lack of sentiment, optimism, or pessimism, as far as Britain and her Empire is concerned. He has spent eleven years in the country interpreting the English mind for readers of the New York Herald-Tribune, and now he has produced a searching essay on the English which Americans should not pass...
Months ago President Hoover, obviously endorsed by public sentiment, and joined by even the ill-organized, quarrelsome House of Representatives in its famed standing vote of March 29, resolved that in fiscal 1933 the U. S. must spend no more than it takes in, that the Budget must balance. Three consecutive, mounting deficits would certainly impair the public credit...
...commutations from Governor Judd, island-born son of an island-born son of a Yankee missionary, did not come spontaneously. Defense counsel had formally petitioned him for executive clemency but more potent was the pressure of mainland sentiment. In Washington Congress had seethed with legislative proposals to set the convictions aside. No less than 104 Congressmen had signed a cabled plea to Governor Judd to pardon the four prisoners. Victor Steuart Kaleoaloha Houston, Hawaiian delegate in Congress, aware of the rising political tide against his territory, likewise begged the Governor...
Because commutations of sentence do not restore civil rights, a belated drive was started by Lawyer Darrow to get his clients full and unconditional pardons from Governor Judd. In Washington, Congressional sentiment was overwhelmingly for pardons. Legislation was offered authorizing the President to act over the head of the territorial governor in such cases as this...