Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thorough study of the subject, particularly in view of the urgent situation now facing the Congress of the United States. He has written a series of articles entitled "They Cry Peace, Peace", and has just returned from a tour of the country in an effort to determine the sentiment of the people in various sections...
...like a harmless trolley trip. Indeed, there is some doubt whether the Board can keep this momentum Bunder control, because many of the inflationary threats lie not upon the records in its rented quarters across from the Treasury but in the cloak rooms of the Capitol. Last week inflationary sentiment in Congress burned brighter than at any time since 1933. Congressmen hate the thought of voting taxes in an election year. Led by Oklahoma's Thomas in the Senate and Texas' Patman in the House, inflationists and silverites loudly demanded new currency by the billion...
...read as search for clues. But even nervous readers will find enough of those to lead them to an opinion: 1) Patchen's language dates him as definitely as a Eugenie bonnet: These withered times prepare no turkish-bath. . . . We can't get there by taxicab or sentiment. . . . Glory squashed in the hinge of a history. . . . 2) When lucidly emotional he writes an angry Letter to a Policeman in Kansas City. 3) When not making experimental "statements," he hymns the Revolution. 4) He knows when he has created such a mighty line as We hear the dark curve...
...through study of the urgent situation now confronting the Congress of the United States. Author of a series of articles on the question in the New Republic called "They Cry Peace, Peace," Mr. Bliven has just completed a tour of the country in an effort to determine the sentiment of the people...
...which had rushed to the Negroes' side with cash & counsel, the Scottsboro Boys were martyrs to Southern injustice and intolerance. To Southerners, the defendants were a gang of "bad niggers" whose crime was being brazenly exploited by malicious Reds, Jews and Yankees. Responsible Southern sentiment indicated, however, that a fair trial might finally be guaranteed if the defense would abandon its obvious air of partisanship. Apparently in response to this feeling, shortly before the trial the Reds involved in the defense had retreated rather clumsily behind a committee of intersectional liberals. To do the actual pleading, an Alabama lawyer...