Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie rode into St. Louis last week through a blizzard of confetti and congested, noisy streets. It was the best welcome he had had so far. As the Willkie 16-car special rolled across New York and Ohio, reports of an upswing in Willkie sentiment had roused resurgent hopes. To the train had come an announcement that Franklin Roosevelt was about to charge into the Presidential campaign. The news was like a tonic. Willkie had at last smoked out the ghost. The absentee champ was at last coming out of his corner. With a new note of confidence...
...whom Rockefeller had pushed to the wall. Miss Tarbell proved a terrible avenger. Her History of the Standard Oil Company, a perfervid, superbly documented indictment of oil-trust machinations, brought in a gusher of popular ill will which still bubbles up from time to time in anti-Rockefeller sentiment...
...attempts of the Faculty Defense Group's Committee on Correspondence to form defense organizations on other college campuses indicate the sharp geographical division of sentiment over the war issues...
Although the White committees extend through the western colleges, they have much less general support. Replies received by the Harvard Committee indicate that in many colleges the full aid sentiment is used up in the existing machinery, and the formation of further groups is impossible...
Even in Chicago, where war sentiment in the faculty is strong, no group has sprung up. Feeling in the mid-western colleges seems of a passive sort. "The war is three thousand miles away. Elaborate efforts at preparation will only tend to lead...