Word: sentimentality
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...garden, and by the Englishman as a looking glass. He is an American journalist who has braved the agonizing spectacle of English illogical self-deception in every sphere of British activity and inactivity and has been able to write down his observations with conviction, but with complete lack of sentiment, optimism, or pessimism, as far as Britain and her Empire is concerned. He has spent eleven years in the country interpreting the English mind for readers of the New York Herald-Tribune, and now he has produced a searching essay on the English which Americans should not pass...
Months ago President Hoover, obviously endorsed by public sentiment, and joined by even the ill-organized, quarrelsome House of Representatives in its famed standing vote of March 29, resolved that in fiscal 1933 the U. S. must spend no more than it takes in, that the Budget must balance. Three consecutive, mounting deficits would certainly impair the public credit...
...commutations from Governor Judd, island-born son of an island-born son of a Yankee missionary, did not come spontaneously. Defense counsel had formally petitioned him for executive clemency but more potent was the pressure of mainland sentiment. In Washington Congress had seethed with legislative proposals to set the convictions aside. No less than 104 Congressmen had signed a cabled plea to Governor Judd to pardon the four prisoners. Victor Steuart Kaleoaloha Houston, Hawaiian delegate in Congress, aware of the rising political tide against his territory, likewise begged the Governor...
Because commutations of sentence do not restore civil rights, a belated drive was started by Lawyer Darrow to get his clients full and unconditional pardons from Governor Judd. In Washington, Congressional sentiment was overwhelmingly for pardons. Legislation was offered authorizing the President to act over the head of the territorial governor in such cases as this...
...leniency to the Massie defendants must come through him. The court was powerless to carry out the jury's recommendation for clemency, and unless immediate executive commutation intervened, all four prisoners would be forced to pay the penalty for their crime. And while Governor Judd knew well that native sentiment demanded punishment and would react disagreeably to undue leniency, he was influenced even more by expressions of American opinion which reached him. The Governor was not only an American appointed official, he was a white man; and he commuted the ten-year sentence to one hour...