Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the vehement anti-New Deal sentiment in Detroit failed to shake the University of Detroit's 906 to 222 vote for Roosevelt. The University of Washington, in Scattle, showed the largest vote of all, of which 2253 balots went for the Democrats and 1562 for the Republicans...
Many voters, moved by sentiment and not too insistent upon concrete results, pour forth mush on the subject of Cordell Hull and the New Deal foreign policy. Those who see in Mr. Hull a second John Quincy Adams should recall the smashup of the London Economic Conference as well as the financial spoliation of China, which are more typical of New Deal measures than most. They should also recall that the trend toward "big brotherhood" in Latin America began under a Republican administration while Roosevelt was still a scheming, incapable Governor of New York...
Last week even readers with no great sentiment for Wall Street's old bulls felt the poignancy of these headlines. In 1886, when Henry Ford was sawing wood on his father's farm, William Crapo Durant was introducing mass production to the buggy business. What passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which...
Most of us like the balm of a little sentiment scattered sweetly here and there throughout the length of a serious movie, a kind of salve to smooth the rough edges of the plot; but literally to take a bath in the ointment is neither pleasant nor logical. And such was "To Mary With Love." It was a bathtub of sentiment, and it was neither pleasant nor logical...
...rampant in the locker rooms of Dillon Field House. The key-note of the atmosphere down there is rather a grim determination to turn in a better record than might be expected from them on paper. There are many experienced observers, however, who leave the practice field voicing the sentiment that at least one major opponent will leave Harvard Stadium this year with a far worse headache than it had bargained...