Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt, if nominated, can't be elected," was a widespread sentiment upon which James A. Farley, the Governor's campaign manager, last week started to war. He predicted that at Chicago his candidate would get 691 votes on the first nominating ballot which would be increased to the necessary 770 by switches before the roll was completed. Leaping ahead to the election itself Manager Farley optimistically .declared...
...with Prohibition was manifest in the 1930 Congressional elections. This year the Wet vote in the House reached an all-time Prohibition peak of 187. The G. O. P. in New Jersey, Illinois and Vermont last month plumped for resubmission or repeal. A Literary Digest poll showed preponderant wet sentiment in every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote Nicholas Murray Butler that the "evils" resulting from Prohibition led him now to favor repeal. Practical politicians realized that...
...Republican leaders some time ago. As equivocal as anyone could require, such a plank would be most helpful to pre-election party orators, and to all appearances there can be little question but that it will be included. But in the past week, a wave of pro-repeal sentiment has swept the country, staunchly supported by the press and public reaction to the high spots of the new tax law. That the widely advertised "influential repeal element" at the convention posseses enough strength to alter the submission plank seems unlikely, but it is a question which time alone can decide...
...Brazil across which he had led a squadron of ten seaplanes last year. General Balbo had something else on his mind: a proposal that all nations open their airports to international commercial traffic as seaports admit ships of all flags. The delegates were without authority but could direct sentiment...
...less than governors-general, derive their powers directly from the King who appoints them, theoretically, on the advice of the local premier. In practice the King used to appoint governors-general and governors much as he pleased, but George V has been forced to bow more & more to local sentiment, notably when His Majesty was forced to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs, "a man he had never seen," to be Governor General of Australia. For a governor to dismiss a premier is unusual but not unprecedented. Two Premiers of Quebec have been dismissed by their Governor...