Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep fit for his legal and political jobs he flies his own airplane, keeps up the expert fencing which in 1928 got him elected captain of the U. S. Olympic fencing team. Not seriously seeking the Presidency, Colonel Breckinridge last week wished only to rally anti-New Deal sentiment, register a "protest" vote within the party against its present leader. Result: Colonel Breckinridge, 17,701 votes; Franklin Roosevelt...
...possible political repercussions, rather than the unethical and probably illegal aspects of the measure, which attract attention. Somewhat dormant recently, popular feeling and fears about recovery would be sufficiently whipped into a froth to reenforce Republican sentiment. The two proponents are, indeed, Republicans, but of the insurgent variety and they draw most of their support from the Democratic ranks. The real suggestibility of the measure, if it develops momentum, lies in what position Senator Borah might be forced to take, with his long record of favoring farmers and inflationists...
...made Air Minister Hermann Goring and Army Chief of Staff Werner von Fritsch colonel-generals and Fleet Commander Erich Raeder an admiral-general (something new). Colonel-general and admiral-general were also promoted to full Cabinet rank. To the smiling group in the Chancellery, suffused with pink German sentiment, the Führer readily launched into oratory: "On this day I look back with pride and joy upon the years that lie behind us. ... Our miraculous resurrection fills me with deep gratitude toward all those who, by their faithful cooperation, have made possible my successful leadership of the nation...
...their choice for President. Roosevelt had twenty thousand supporters, and the eight delegates pledged to him were elected with almost no opposition. Seventy thousand citizens took the trouble to write in Landon's name; the Republican delegates, though unpledged, will hardly be apt to defy such a clearly expressed sentiment...
Frank Darvall, noted English scholar and lecturer, discussed recent British sentiment in regard to foreign affairs. With this as an example he pressed the fight for peace on the European front, the "need to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy but not to attack the principle of an international police to preserve peace, by force if necessary...