Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent it to the Senate, everyone knew that the final draft, with promised revisions, would ultimately be written in conference. Only Ferdinand Pecora, Senate Banking & Currency Committee counsel, pretended to believe that the opponents of stockmarket regulation still had a chance of working their will against the overwhelming sentiment of Congress and country. Therefore, as if to wither them with one last blast and put the control bill over the Congressional hump, he flung out to the Press what the New York Times called "an armful of raw and bleeding figures." The figures were an unanalyzed summary of brokers...
...Avery: Words cannot express my indignation over a sentiment so unpatriotic...
...Conant goes on to remark, "In the larger faculties more and more work is being done by administrative boards or committees. This is a very efficient system but tends to debar from discussion a large number and keeps the president from being in close touch with the general sentiment." It is to remedy the admitted defect of the present form of faculty meeting, and at the same time re-establish the former good, that the new council of sixty has been called into being. With a provision for rotation in office, it should permit "all the members of the larger...
...efficiency of the Administrative Board plan was not denied by President Conant but he pointed out that it tends to debar from discussion a large number and keeps the President from being in close touch with the general sentiment...
...anti-New Deal Democrats were at the depot in Washington by any means. Our own Governor Ely now finds it expedient to declare that government control of industry has gone far enough and that the field should once more be left to free competition. While this sentiment expresses in general a growing conviction that the administration cannot much longer occupy a middle position on all-important questions of governmental control, still Mr. Ely must be an optimist indeed to believe that "free" competition will not again land us in the same slough as the one from which we are just...