Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propaganda and high-pressure lobbying of powerful interest groups. But a nation-wide poll conducted in 1937 gives a majority for the Amendment in every State, and a 76 per cent majority in favor for the country as a whole. It is time that this sentiment be translated into action...
...ardent pacifist in the '20s. He is Union Seminary's famed theologian, highbrowed, sharp-eyed Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, and behind him are a group of potent church sponsors disturbed by a belief that every existing interdenominational paper is strongly pacifist in tone and no longer reflects the sentiment of most ministers...
...test this shift, TIME last week asked ranking churchmen of each major Protestant denomination what change they had observed in the sentiment of their clergy since Sept. 1939. Without exception they reported a trend away from pacifism. Individual pronouncements-which had no official status-the answers are nonetheless significant and indicative...
...social reforms of the New Deal, and has opposed forces making for American involvement in war. Looking back to 1914, many Americans of college age noted that there were no well-organized youth movements then working for peace, and took heart for the future, trusting that the mobilized peace sentiment of 1940 undergraduates would help make World War II a different story...
...were willing, that the President could force Hitler into peace by threatening to enter the war on the British side if the peace terms weren't "reasonable." Senators Tydings of Maryland, Vandenberg of Michigan, McCarran of Nevada, Holt of West Virginia, Johnson of Colorado all chorused this sentiment, with bass and tenor variations. Next morning the New York Times demanded to know what they meant by "a just peace": just to whom? To The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Poland, France, CzechoSlovakia? Walter Lippmann asked how Hitler could be trusted...