Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sell sentiment-not in Washington," shouted a perspiring auctioneer as he knocked down for only $45 a mahogany sofa, two armchairs and one other chair-all upholstered in velour. He was conductting the sale of the furniture of 2314 Wyoming Ave., Washington, D. C., formerly the home of Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. The furnished house was sold by the late President and recently resold, which caused the auction of the furniture. The prices paid for Mr. Harding's belongings were commensurate with their intrinsic rather than sentimental value...
...years trial, the same corruption is evident among the executive agents and the judiciary, and the wealthy continue demoralizing the working classes with their defiance of the law, it would be perhaps sensible to seek some compromise. It might be well to consider seriously the strong and sincere sentiment, as demonstrated by the resolution of the American Federation of Labor, for light wines and beer...
...natural conclusion is that there are too many wholesalers, and while they may make very fine broth for themselves, they most certainly ruin the consumer's. Public control of industries has never been looked upon with favor and the Coal Commission has apparently fallen in with this sentiment by suggesting as a remedy the setting up of a "skeleton regulative machinery" over the entire production and interstate distribution of coal to be used only when the President judges that "an emergency exists". No doubt the Commission is right in implying that such profiteering exists only when there...
Said William Jennings Bryan at an evening session at which President Coolidge was present: " If the President and his Cabinet with the Governors and their advisors would publicly announce that they themselves are teetotalers and will not use intoxicants themselves, it would do more to strengthen the prohibition sentiment of the nation than anything else could...
...Attorney General's dictum was apparently an outgrowth of the strong sentiment in the American Bankers' Association last year against branch banking; its alleged purpose was to strengthen the Reserve System. Such legislation is, however, distinctly dangerous to this very purpose, since national banks must compete with state banks, and if state charters allow more latitude than national, existing national banks will convert into state banks, as the Irving has recently done. The privilege of issuing banknotes yields so little profit to a national bank, that its surrender is not a serious consideration...