Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together a little too hastily to make a sharply drawn and forceful portrait of either the man or his time. His appraisal of the man differs markedly from that of Rockefeller's early muckrackers, William D. Lloyd and Ida Tarbell, who wrote before the great philanthropies had mellowed public sentiment and mergers had become respectable. These critics were dominated by the competitive ideal which Rockefeller perceived at the outset as false and inapplicable to the exigencies of the business situation and which we have more recently come to doubt as sound public policy. Valid criticism of Rockefeller should be based...
...Although sentiment throughout Athens was with the distinguished visitor from Chicago, the five judges confirmed the arrest. Mr. Insull was moved to the Aretaieon Clinic pending the arrival of complete documents from the U. S. He may well have recalled that the day of his arrest was the third anniversary of that glamorous night when his greatest public work, the new Chicago Civic Opera building, was opened to the triumphal overture from Aida...
...ordered for sometime in February. This will give Von Papen's economic program a chance to show results. Von Papen has already achieved some success in his programs, notably a decrease in unemployment, the dropping of reparations payments for the time being, and his success in pleasing nationalist sentiment by his demand for equality in armaments...
...shrewd observer, Nominee Thomas reported thus on his travels: "There's a strong Roosevelt sentiment throughout the country but it's based less on affection for or confidence in him than hatred of his opponent. There is more of this than I ever saw in American political life. All this protest vote will go to Roosevelt and not to me. But I've never yet been able to find a real Roosevelt rooter except perhaps Josephus Daniels who says he raised him. The Roosevelt people are those who put cotton in their ears so they...
...Liberal Club and his support of radical causes in general. City College is a free public institution financed by the government of New York. The result is that its student opinion tends to the radical side, while its administration is, more than in most colleges, wary of articulate revolutionary sentiment. The truth of the case seems to be that the authorities, tried beyond their patience by student agitations, or perhaps acting on orders from the city government, determined to strike at the most prominent cause of their trouble, without regard for the right and wrong of the matter...