Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canton, Ohio, anti-strike sentiment quickened when the chamber of commerce polled 6,465 steel workers by mail. Three clergymen employed to count the returns reported 3,633 votes for returning to work, 216 for continuing the strike, a majority, although 2,516 ballots were cast out as palpable forgeries, not being printed on the same paper or with the same perforations as those mailed...
...Such a sentiment finds itself in print in the Decennial Report just published by this one of the last of the Inflation Classes. In addition to life blanks and a statement of the class's status with regard to the Harvard Fund, principal interest of the book centers round a questionnaire of 69 questions. Adding up the answers Joseph C. Furnas '27 then comes out with the lead article, "Was It Worth While" and produces the conclusion first quoted...
...Catholic Church which had just helped close all Manhattan burlesque shows (TIME, May 10), hastily passed a certain Dunnigan Bill. This would have empowered New York City's Commissioner of Licenses to close, singlehanded, any play he considered "immoral," padlock the theatre where it was shown. Mobilized public sentiment persuaded Governor Herbert Lehman to veto the bill last fortnight...
...Small choice among rotten apples" was the phrase which Merriman said best epitomized the English and French sentiment toward the warring parties in Spain. Any outcome would be "poor for the rest of Europe," he stated...
...State of Mississippi. We are not protesting the publication of 'these letters. They have served the very good purpose of awakening the public officials to the necessity of stamping out this practice. The matter will unquestionably be given the attention of our Legislature in 1938. Aroused public sentiment has already put a stop to the practice. It is unfortunate that the action of a score or less of selfish individuals should bring general condemnation of an entire State...