Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone to the country on an adroit Prohibition platform promising enforcement of the 18th Amendment and nothing more. Last week political wind was full of straws to indicate that the party might stop weasling, might devise a new, Wetter formula at the Chicago convention to match the shifting sentiment of the past twelve years. What the formula would be was anybody's guess but there was no doubt that the idea of a referendum plank has lately gained great strength among G. O. P. leaders. Seven straws...
...hell with the sales tax!" was also the sentiment last week of a coalition in the national House of Representatives. Opposed to a 2½% levy on manufacturers in the budget-balancing revenue bill, this bloc wrenched the legislation away from its sponsors and proceeded to mangle it almost beyond recognition. Leaders of the revolt were insurgent Republican LaGuardia of New York and Democrat Doughton of North Carolina. Arraying mass against class, they argued that the sales tax raising $595,000,000 of the bill's $1,096,000,000 was an unfair impost upon poor people, that wealth...
...then, explain the prominence of Newton D. Baker among the possible Democratic nominees? Testimony comes in to tell of a prevailing Baker sentiment throughout the nation which persists in spite of the lack of any active organized effort to promote the Ohioan's candidacy. A poll taken recently of Democratic newspaper editors revealed nearly as many predictions of Baker's election as of Roosevelt's. Prominent party politicians, while discreetly silent in states where Mr. Baker's own withheld permission is necessary for their appearance at Chicago as official delegates, are known to harbor a secret desire for the fateful...
...speech on the League at the Madison Square convention of 1924 ranks among the most eloquent efforts of modern times. His position has not changed, but he is sufficiently a realist to recognize the folly, and the constitutional impossibility, of our entering the League until a vast body of sentiment in the country approves that action. For that reason he opposes a Democratic party endorsement as a new partisan division would throw the matter back into the political bickerings of 1920. Nevertheless, exceptional opportunities would exist for a president to aid in the formation of a more favorable public opinion...
Religious cults which opposed any tampering with corpses, and the belief that such examinations cast a reflection upon the relatives of the deceased, constituted a semi-superstitious sentiment against exhumation. Present-day accident insurance and double-indemnity clauses, however, together with the decreased expense of autopsies, says Dr. Magrath, are responsible for the change in sentiment...