Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have no objection to reasonable regulation which will prevent the recurrence of any alleged abuses of the past. . . . The present bill, however, is aimed to control and kill-not to regulate and cure. . . . The passage of this bill can only be prevented by an aroused and indignant public sentiment. We hope you, both as a security holder and as a citizen, will do your part...
...Sentiment from the folks back home chilled the feet of only one of the 21 Democrats who voted against the President. North Carolina's Robert Rice Reynolds felt the need to hedge his vote. He proposed an amendment to the relief bill, now buried in committee, which would pay prevailing wages only where they would not compete with private industry. "I hate a straddler," cried he. "I hate a man who stands so that people cannot tell where he stands. . . . We should stand on one side of the fence or the other, or else take the fence away...
...Mother May's Son Dennis was an imbecile, the fact that she had nursed and tended him for 30 years and her words, "I knew I must have an operation and I didn't want Dennis to be without care," have all stirred the well of British sentiment to its depths. Two days after her conviction as a murderer Mother May was assured of reprieve. In Britain for pardon to follow reprieve in a murder case is rare indeed. Last week Mother May was taken home by limousine and police were assigned "to guard her from cranks." Leaning...
...been disappearing. In January there was a notable pickup in the demand for used steam shovels. A bright spot in new machinery is the traveling crane trade. Higher labor costs have sent businessmen into the machine market but the rise has largely been the result of better business sentiment, heartening industrialists to the point where they will step out and buy modern equipment...
...their treatment of labor, a crucial index to the sentiment of any modern government, the powers that be have repeatedly attempted to mollify strikers while really protecting employers, as some union leaders have complained. Pleas for a truce, for pacific adjustment of quarrels, generally indicate a gentle determination to maintain the status quo. Naturally, the problem is not this simple in reality, as public utility men will loudly declaim. But on the whole, the policy of the President appears to be one of favoring big business first, and groups like the National Chamber of Commerce are slowly coming to realize...