Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experts were glowing a few weeks ago when Henry Ford announced that he was increasing his production quotas, and the sentiment at that time was that this news augured well for the automobile industry as a whole. But old Dame Rumor couldn't let Ford's promising statement alone. A little bird has been informing the followers of the market that both Ford and Packard are planning to enter new candidates in the $1000 class, to compete with General Motors and Chrysler. This bit of information adds to the general gayety of the situation and at the same time throws...
...often too, in the past, the Democratic party has ridden into power on a wave of popular sentiment, and then proceeded to cut its own throat, either through usurpation of its newly-found prestige, or through measures which have alienated large sections of the country to such an extent as to pave the way for a Republican victory in the next elections. Because the Wilson administration misgauged the nation's state of mind, and overstepped its bounds, it was summarily defeated in 1920. On the major issues of controversy, therefore, Roosevelt and his cohorts will do well to keep...
...danger is rather that we have become so used to the idea as to be callous to it. The purpose of actions such as the Armistice Day Weekend actions planned by the students' committee is to combat this callousness, and to organize into an effective force the antiwar sentiment of the great majority of the student body. The actions are taken during Armistice Day Weekend because we are convinced that action to prevent future wars is the most effective tribute to those who have died in the wars of the past...
...Bacon said that he would do everything in his power in the remaining days of the campaign, to prevent the State House from being disgraced by the presence of Curley. He claimed that Curley's star is on the down-grade, and his own in the ascendancy, that sentiment has changed in the past week...
...other professor is Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Higginson Professor of Economics, who has described Curley as a "blatant demagogue." The shift in sentiment is further borne out by the new results of the Faculty poll this morning. Bacon has a total of 311 votes while Curley has only 18. Thus the Faculty is supporting the Republican candidate by a vote of 18 to 1 while undergraduates voted only 7-1 in favor...