Word: sentimentality
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...Leagues. Making no serious attempt at nationalistic representation and wasting a good share of their time in futile bickering over the details of predetermined conclusions, those gatherings have become little other than a social function. The new Harvard League, through its representative character should assure some expression of national sentiment; its permanence will encourage more serious study of international difficulties than does the distant and temporary character of its unhappy prototype...
...Garner was denounced for failing to control his party in an emergency. (This week he took the floor with a budget-balancing plea.) The Democratic "chaos" was taken to prove that the party was not "fit to rule." But the House majority against the Sales Tax clearly reflected the sentiment of the country as a whole where the revolt against the staggering mass of direct and tangible taxes has been steadily progressing. Anti-sales-taxers argued that it was much better to "soak the rich" than to "soak the poor" if somebody had to be "soaked." The Federal Government today...
...hell with the sales tax!" was also the sentiment last week of a coalition in the national House of Representatives. Opposed to a 2½% levy on manufacturers in the budget-balancing revenue bill, this bloc wrenched the legislation away from its sponsors and proceeded to mangle it almost beyond recognition. Leaders of the revolt were insurgent Republican LaGuardia of New York and Democrat Doughton of North Carolina. Arraying mass against class, they argued that the sales tax raising $595,000,000 of the bill's $1,096,000,000 was an unfair impost upon poor people, that wealth...
Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune replied: "Well, that's your affair, Emory. But of course I'll do everything I can to protect my circulation. We can't let sentiment stand...
...walls of Publisher Thomason's office (in the old Market Street plant where the defunct Journal used to be published) hang pictures of Col. McCormick, his managing editor Edward S. Beck, his old time circulation wrangler Max Annenberg, now publisher of the Patterson-McCormick tabloid Detroit Mirror. Sentiment? He and McCormick were classmates in the law school of Northwestern University, law partners for many years thereafter. As a Tribune executive he was reputedly the "highest paid man in the newspaper business'-$275,000 a year...