Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since no poll was taken, majority sentiment at Williamstown could only be judged by the tone of the speeches and the general reaction to them. Able Churchman Leiper is entitled to his own observation-but TIME'S reporter, who spent all six days at the meeting, is also entitled...
...politics for moral reasons, would deliver the vote for cannibalism if he thought cannibalism would win. And the President listens to him, because he knows that when Kelly advocates a policy Kelly is thinking of votes, not the public good -he is not a biased barometer of public sentiment...
However, the speed with which members were found is significant of the strength of isolationist sentiment in Cambridge at that time. For the last year no one organization could hope to get more than 100 members even without a $.10 tax because opinions have split into so many varied channels...
Early in February the CRIMSON polled the College on its war sentiment and discovered an almost even split between those who were willing to go to war if necessary to defeat the Axis and those who said they would not fight in Europe in any case. Only a small minority were opposed to sending aid and to declaring war immediately...
...Scout who goes ahead, trial balloon in hand, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion, whipping up sentiment pro or con whatever the President has decided the U.S. should be for or against. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket...