Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose of the Freedom of the Press Committee, so far as was revealed, is to intensify public sentiment in favor of press-freedom. Speakers at the meeting viewed with alarm the fact that the U. S. Supreme Court voted the Minnesota "gag law" unconstitutional by such a small margin as 5 to 4 (TIME, June 8 et ante). But the first specific function of the Committee will be a celebration of that vote, on Oct. 20 at Thomas Jefferson's ''Monticello" near Charlottesville, Va. One room of "Monticello," maintained by the Jefferson Foundation, is to be designated...
...business affects U. S. business. As France well guessed, it was not pure altruism that made a Republican U. S. President call for an international debt holiday to save Germany from fiscal chaos. Through the breach in U. S. Isolation thus made, and encouraged by almost solid national sentiment behind him. President Hoover last week marched another, longer step away from G. O. P. tradition. He sent his Secretaries of State and Treasury formally to London to confer with the ministers of Europe on Europe's crisis...
...Albert Cabell Ritchie's bid for the Presidency is based on sentiment rather than sense...
...Hawes, author of the Philippine independence bill in Congress, last week continued to stir the brown-skinned natives to feverish excitement. Old Army men were shocked, politicos delighted, when he proposed that the U. S. turn over its fortress and defense works at Corregidor to the Filipinos. Voicing the sentiment of U. S. residents, the Manila Herald flayed the Senator for hobnobbing exclusively with the natives, for discourteously ignoring U. S. officials. So alarmed was one large commercial house over the prospect of independence that it applied to Lloyd's for insurance rates against such an eventuality...
Nothing sells like sentiment. Three weeks ago Publishers Minton, Balch emitted this "Prosperity note'': ''Last year the American News Co. ordered 7,500 copies of | Alice Grant Rosman's] The Young & Secret in advance of publication: this year they have ordered 10,000 copies of The Sixth Journey...