Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...REPORT OF U. S. POLITICS IN WAR CRISIS I HAVE READ. BUT DON'T YOU EMBARRASS THE SENATOR FROM MICHIGAN BY CLAIMING HE IMPLICITLY BELIEVES J. P. MORGAN HELPED ENGINEER AND RUN WORLD WAR I FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT AND THAT MORGAN IS IN THE SENATOR'S OPINION A MERCHANT OF DEATH. ALONE OF THE SENATE MUNITIONS COMMITTEE VANDENBERG CONSPICUOUSLY AND WARMLY SHOOK HANDS WITH MORGAN . . . AND THERE ARE POSSIBLY MORE PICTURES IN EXISTENCE OF VANDENBERG AND MORGAN TOGETHER THAN THERE ARE OF MIDGETS SITTING ON MORGAN'S LAP. HOW MANY PICTURES CAN YOU FIND OF SENATORS...
...sequence of collisions and calamities, no one of which would have been believed for a minute by the industrious philosophers of 1929. While the echoes of the crash were still rolling, the ardent Charles Mitchell, supersalesman of the boom years, said calmly, "I am still of the opinion that the reaction has badly overrun itself." Jimmy Walker, defeating Fiorello LaGuardia for Mayor of New York, asked that movie houses show only cheerful pictures in an attempt to brighten the general gloom. A world that saw full-page advertisements offering Manhattan apartments for $45,000 a year, and sable coats...
...together, his statement committed the vast subcontinent to war. This fact was appreciated by all, but from the Indians present came no sign of enthusiasm. It was only when His Excellency unexpectedly announced that the grave political question of all-India federation, which virtually all shades of Indian opinion had opposed for different reasons, would be shelved for the duration of the war that the Indian members rose and cheered the Viceroy with such zeal that the Assembly's speaker had to hammer his desk thrice to restore order...
According to the memorandum, "each man was considered on his merits, absolute and relative. . . . All the decisions reached in the spring of 1939 were made jointly by the Administration and the Departments concerned. Usually the departments were unanimous; in no Department was there more than one dissentient opinion...
...urging Hitler to strike at once with a giant pincer attack through Belgium and Switzerland. Air Minister Goring was reported against this, at least until the U. S. should make up its mind about embargoing munitions to the Allies. If the embargo is lifted and U. S. opinion of Germany discounted, then Göring would strike ruthlessly through the air. Meantime, the Berlin correspondent of Italy's big Stefani news agency reported last week: "The Germans will leave to the French and British the honor and risk of beginning...