Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article by the Under Secretary of State which peels much of the gold leaf from governmental careers. Service to the United States seems much like labor in any business, full of detail, clerical precision, and hard work. There is little in his report which would inspire the lofty sentiment of Stephen Decatur in the undergraduates breast...
...coming home to take care of my business like every good American should." Despite the fact that his best friends believed that he was without White House motives and ambitions the thought persisted that, somehow, somewhere, "Charley" Dawes would be brought forward as the beneficiary of anti-Hoover sentiment...
...This sentiment was reflected last week by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, smart Republican politician, in her Rockford (Ill.) Register-Republic which declared that "Mr. Hoover is not a popular leader." Her paper advised leaders to discard the practice of renominating a President just because he was in the White House, to stop "following the political methods in vogue when father was a boy." Five days later the Register-Republic declared: "Illinois gives you Charles Gates Dawes for President...
...that section of his annual report devoted to medical care of the students President Lowell expressed general satisfaction with the existing situation. Because his is the usual complacent sentiment expressed in official pronouncements on the medical situation, and because there has been no intimation of any change in the near future, the CRIMSON feels it necessary to express a view in opposition to the President's; a view believed to be held very generally by undergraduates. It is fully realized that the economic situation at present will not permit any unnecessary changes and that certain suggestions have been made from...
...regard to Smith, the present sentiment of the party seems to be that he had had his opportunity, and fairness requires that Roosevelt be given his. Probably Smith at present has just enough strength to stop the nomination of his former ally, though hardly enough to be chosen himself. It is possible to sympathize with Smith's desire for another attempt at the presidency, and still feel that the party's aims would be better reached by another man. In some measure, the fate of his party will perhaps hinge on the struggle between ex-Governor Smith's personal ambitions...