Word: sentimentality
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Less partisan observers found public sentiment more favorable to President Hoover than it was a year ago, attributed it to popular approval of recent Hoover-sponsored measures against Depression, popular disapproval of malicious attacks on the President by political enemies. Physically the President appeared a little greyer, a little more serious of mien than he was at the two-year mark but in excellent health...
...note to Japan, frankly telling that government it was violating a treaty? Apparently Mr. Stimson adopted the letter-to-a-Senator method because it would serve his purpose of warning Japan and yet spare her the necessity of making any diplomatic reply. Aware of the enormous national strength and sentiment behind him, the Secretary may have preferred to "pull" his first punch in the hope that no more would be necessary...
...fact that America is not represented in the meetings and that her interests may therefore be conviently disregarded leads participants to express foreign claims with a sympathy and enthusiasm that might easily prejudice their subsequent attitude toward American rights and demands. Such a lack of appreciation for national sentiment is apparent throughout all the negotiations and accounts in, large measure for the character of the conclusions. This fact, coupled to the mechanical ease with which those decisions are reached, must inevitably give rise to a mistaken conception in the minds of participants as to the true nature of international negotiations...
...Iowa month ago Governor Murray went to address great gatherings of farmers, was cheered till the rafters rang. That this sentiment for him was not all noise was revealed this month by a presidential State-wide poll conducted by the Des Moines Register and Tribune. President Hoover got 14,778 out of 17,925 Republican straw votes. Out of 38,732 Democratic votes, Governor Murray led with 13,427; Governor Roosevelt followed with 13,401 and Alfred Emanuel Smith came third with...
...proved little, since in offering three alternatives, repeal, modification, and enforcement, no one received a majority of votes. Though the earlier Prohibition poll was inconclusive, the presidential poll of 1928 proved to be surprisingly accurate. The present questionnaire, offering only two choices, will probably decide with equal exactitude the sentiment of the American voters. Th large number of replies already counted show a decided wet majority in every state. Although the method of choosing voters prevented a completely typical cross-section, this result, as in 1928 indicates the belief of the American people...