Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That a strong sentiment for non-intervention existed among the undergraduates last fall was established by the fact that the American Independence League, an organization dedicated to peace but having no specific aims except "keeping out of war" signed up 600 members in three or four days. Except for one brief outburst six months later, the A. I. L. disappeared as quickly as it came...
...year?" I submit that this is a vastly different thing from asking the public whether it favors peacetime conscription, even of men from 21 to 31, as the Burke-Wadsworth bill is now worded. . . . TIME'S use of these polls as authority for the status of public sentiment on this question leaves the magazine open to questioning by those of us who sincerely believe that peacetime conscription in America is not only unnecessary (in view of the fact that the General Staff itself has testified that the Army is not impeded in increasing its strength by a lack...
That any such array of power confronted Mr. Roosevelt in 1936 was a myth exploded last week by Editor & Publisher. In a survey of press sentiment for & against a third term. Editor & Publisher inserted a question to set the record straight: Did you support Roosevelt against Landon in 1936? Of the papers which replied, 60% were Landon followers, 35% backed Roosevelt, 5% were neutral...
...behind was sentiment for conscription, on which Candidate Roosevelt, Candidate Willkie see eye to eye. For conscription were 70% of the papers canvassed, opposed were 11%, 19% were neutral. But on the sale of obsolete destroyers to Great Britain the press had not yet made up its majority mind. Less than 43% of the papers TIME surveyed approved the sale, 18% were on record against it. Neutral or undecided were over 39% who kept their opinion to themselves, took no definite stand...
Here a nicely managed plot thickens and begins to curdle. Not only do they find a stowaway, but she gives birth to a baby. Rough sailors with hearts of Holland Rusk are softened by a Helpless Mite. After shipping this comber of sentiment the story rights itself and moves ahead with almost its old blend of sinister excitement, rather brilliant writing, and psychological veracity. But the diaper sequences are not quite forgivable in an author who can produce the rest of the book...