Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complained about the rates and service of the Compania Colombiana de Electricidad, subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share. Last week they began a general strike which spread until the whole city was tied up. Troops were called out, but there was no disorder, no sign of anti-U.S. sentiment. After two days the municipal authorities capitulated, agreed to expropriate the local company, pay for it with a special bond issue...
...over-heroism of Mr. Penn, his challenging decisions to give up his high position in society and devote his time to his "brothers," however high the sentiment, set the audience in laughs. Melodramatic, too saintly for belief, the picture was one of those in which there wasn't a louse...
...trouble awaits the trio-and the play. Nazis make up the reception committee, and it requires a lot of trite, melodramatic hokum to get past the receiving line. After that, the colonel "reforms" and practically falls in love with Jacobowsky; and the two escape-across a sea of soupy sentiment-to England...
...political polls, TIME readers should be well aware that the best of surveys is in fact nothing but a factual report of public sentiment at some period before election day. A series of such surveys, beginning now when many people are not greatly interested in politics, can be a useful progressive report of the development of public sentiment. What follows is a report on the state of the public mind in mid-February...
...France. At long last the U.S., in conjunction with Great Britain, stood grudgingly ready to recognize the French Committee of National Liberation. President Roosevelt seemed finally convinced that the sentiment of the U.S. people was with General Charles de Gaulle. Within the next fortnight the U.S. would recognize the Committee as the "provisional authority" of France (see p. 33). Paving the way, Franklin Roosevelt said last week: "The time will soon come when the Nazis in France "will learn from millions of brave Frenchmen-now underground-that the people of France, also, are not at all out of this...