Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Last August", he said, "just before I sailed from Hankow for America, I received an invitation to tea from a group of prominent Chinese merchants of Hankow. The opinion they presented to me on the Shantung difficulty represents the sentiment of the more modern Chinese business men, for my friends were not Chinese officials whose views are steeped in imperialism. They had called me in because they knew I was about to leave for America and they wished me to convey their views on Shantung to my friends here in America. What they said may best be retold in somewhat...
...where the college and club stars will compete together before the Olympic try-outs next summer and their ability will be in a large measure judged and compared from the results of these championships. The members of the American Olympic Committee will accordingly be able to form a good opinion of who the best men in competition are and will be able to judge the strength of the team which will represent this country in the Olympic games next August...
...groups, like the Chambers of Commerce, the American Legion, the Non-Partisan League, and the American Federation of Labor, occasionally carry on agitation and bring pressure to bear in order to influence legislation. And government in America has been defined as the result of the pressure of these organized opinions on the Central Legislative Body. But the great mass of American sentiment remains unorganized, and expresses itself only through admittedly inadequate mediums--individual communications, mass meetings called for special purposes, and the passing of occasional resolutions. Any movement of a new group to make its influence felt in the time...
...should be perpetuated. The Government would receive aid in determining, its policy from a well-informed part of its society. The colleges, for their part, would benefit from a greater discussion of vital problems, and a stimulus to such discussion would be provided by a permanent forum of college opinion...
...politician, the Public is something to be fawned on one minute and fleeced the next; for the marginal factory owner, it is something to be fleeced always, and fawned on when occasion required. For Mr. Gompers, it is no doubt a Thing whose one function is to have an opinion opposed to most strikes on their merits and against the rest on principle. Some have even doubted the existence of this Public; others have inferred its existence from the trail of havoc it leaves behind, and affirm that they know the particular newspaper office to which it goes each...