Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race, the second, his running mate. But as the week wore on the national atmosphere became increasingly charged with anxiety. What if the Legion should go on record for immediate payment of the Bonus in full? There were ample indications that it might do so, in the summaries of sentiment among State delegations (see p. 15). The President knew that few members of the 72nd Congress would have the temerity to disregard the Legion's dictates...
Sugar v. Sugar, Oil v. Oil. The independence sentiment which Secretary Hurley encountered on his "eyes-&-ears" tour sprang, as he well knew, not from any major development within the Philippines themselves but from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain beet producers two years ago began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came...
...baiters are, in the Hamlin-Barbour opinion, "zoophiles," animal lovers "whose arguments are always based on sentiment and not on reason." Their accusations formed a "long and rather turgid tirade. ... It is not worth while to attempt to analyze or discuss the charges made. They are not worth the time it would take...
Ever since 1897 the Province of Quebec has remained unflinchingly Liberal. Last year, however, the rest of Canada turned Conservative with a vengeance and swept Dominion Premier Richard Bedford Bennett into power on a Canada-First platform tinted ever so delicately with anti-U. S. sentiment. Many Quebeckers voted for Bennett. Conservative tacticians decided that last week's provincial election was the moment to invade the province in earnest...
...rumors about banks are ever printed. The original bill was drafted in 1907 by .gaunt, white-haired Thomas Bugard Paton, now gen- eral counsel for American Bankers Association. Many mongers have been indicted, but in few cases have banks ever carried the case to a finish because of community sentiment. Monger O'Connell's conviction would be the first in New York State since the passage of the law in 1912. Indicted recently for the same offense were Mr. & Mrs. Monroe Froelich of Woodmere, L. I., who one sunny morning are alleged to have telephoned a dozen friends...