Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration's strategist, Majority Leader Alben Barkley, quickly sensed the sentiment. In four days of adroit maneuvering, he got approval (by the Senate Banking Committee) of a new OPA formula. Out the window went a compromise Bob Taft thought he had arranged. This week the Senate's battle of price control started all over again. U.S. citizens watched it anxiously. There was a strong move to take all controls off meat, poultry and dairy products. Only on rent controls did nearly everyone seem agreed, whatever bill Congress passed, it was all but certain that there would be ceilings...
...party leadership has been under pressure from the rank-&-file, millions of whom are so new to the party that they still think for themselves. The militant members did not relish the idea of tame Communist participation in a government headed by moderate Georges Bidault. To appease this sentiment, the party's legislative leader Jacques Duclos (who knows better) permitted an all-out Communist effort to prevent the seating of certain Rightist deputies elected by the people...
Purpose of the demonstration planned for next week is, in Geller's words, "to show Congress what we think is the overwhelming student sentiment in favor of our purpose, which is to save OPA." He said the committee may send a petition to Congress...
...booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying, in which even the family terrier takes part, mother, child & movie pull through. A ragbag of wornout sentiment, So Goes My Love goes only soso...
Freedom and Hunger. Certainly the sentiment of nationalism had not waned. But some new facts and forces were working in the direction of European unity. In every European country social and political struggles were in progress, but these struggles did not greatly differ from, nation to nation. Basic issues everywhere fell into the same pattern, all turning on the contest between those who sought security even if they had to give up freedom, and those who thought that, in the long run, the security of the individual would only be possible if freedom was retained...