Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heightened by short covering. It remained strong even on the following day when the insolvency of a small Curb house. Piperno & Co., was announced, and trading in Rainbow Luminous Products suspended. Although few persons expected the pace to continue, or even thought there would not soon be another recession, sentiment was considerably improved. Among opinions expressed, notable was that of George McClelland Reynolds, 65, chairman of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., most potent of Chicago bankers. Said Banker Reynolds, last week completing his 50th year in banking: "The fact is that while all the worrying is being done over business...
There is plenty of theoretical argument against branchbanking. There is also much sentiment against it, for oldtime U. S. banking tradition is one of local "unit" independence (the local small-town banker a fatherly financial shepherd to his local flock). Also, for practical purposes, potent bankers have found it prudent to disclaim any intention of becoming more potent lest such designs should offend small bankers who, meanwhile, must be their principal customers. Therefore, the merging-grouping trend had to move until it had half-swept the nation before the A. B. A. dared approve it. And even last week...
There is very little choice for church window themes. In the Fourth Presbyterian's case the near copying of Princeton's east window had the necessity of sentiment. The Chicago window is "in loving memory of Nettie Fowler McCormick, 1835-1923," wife of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-84), inventor of the reaping machine, and mother of Cyrus Hall and Harold Fowler McCormick, both long ago Princeton graduates...
Although still occupied by students, the hall has been anything but a paying proposition during the past three years, and only because of the sentiment connected with it has the building remained so long in the hands of Harvard...
...been the outstanding one in the consideration of the various candidates in the Massachusetts senatorial election Whether Mr. Eben S. Draper's decision to withdraw his support from William Butler, Republican nominee, springs from political spite or not, it at least adds weight to the growing anti prohibition sentiment along the North Atlantic seaboard. In New York, former Attorney General Tuffle has been nominated by the Republicans to run for governor on a repeal platform, while Democratic Governor Roosevelt has finally felt that wet sentiment was more than strong enough among is constituents to allow him to come out flatly...