Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poll did indicate, however, a strong feeling in favor of extending the closing time of the Union hours at breakfast. Other questions revealed little sentiment against the overcrowded conditions at the Union...
...states only South Dakota and Wyoming showed more nays than yeas. The National Industrial Conference Board, a fact-finding eye of Big Business, quizzed all 12,076 editors of U. S. newspapers and farm journals. Each editor was asked to disregard his personal opinions, report his community's sentiment. More than 5,000 responded to this ticklish task. The editors shied in droves from abstract spectres of change. Does your community, asked the Board, favor the principle of government competition with private business? No!-by 27-to-1. The Board tried a new tack. Does your community favor government...
...furniture, paper, bottling and publishing industries, they would belong to a textile workers union. Because of the failure of the oldtime Noble Order of the Knights of Labor and the I. W. W., the "One Big Union" movement faltered until the birth of the Blue Eagle. There was strong sentiment toward the vertical (industrial) union in NRA, shared, but for tactical reasons not promulgated, by General Johnson. At A. F. of L.'s Washington convention last year the industrial v. craft union question was shelved for "study." At the San Francisco convention which concluded last week the problem finally...
What businessmen thought about business in the past few months has been more important than business itself. By last week, however, the state of sentiment had so improved that businessmen were once more concerned with the state of trade. They had pondered the President's reassuring fireside talk; they knew that Big Business was again a welcome White House caller; they read a lot about the Roosevelt "truce" with industry and banking. And if there was still any doubt about the Administration's mellowing attitude, it should have been dismissed by the haste with which the President...
...show John Harvard how to play football will enter the game today with odds considerably shortened before the two elevens line up for the opening kickoff. Quotes last night set the figures at 3-2 for the Crusaders to whip the Crimson forces, which represents a rapid change in sentiment for the Harvard lads...