Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...week long the Senate debated the nomination of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to be an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. All week long Senate sentiment for and against confirmation of this appointment divided so evenly that the result seemed to fluctuate within the narrowest margin of votes. All week long critics of Judge Parker flayed him for his Red Jacket coal case decision upholding a "yellow dog" labor contract, for his political animus toward Negroes. All week long his friends lauded his character, his integrity, his fitness for the highest bench...
...very earnest interest in the prohibition question prevalent among all sorts of conditions of persons, it is reasonable to assume that the complexion of the straw vote in fourteen leading American colleges and universities, conducted recently by the Harvard Crimson, is an honest reflection of the actual sentiment and conduct among attendants at those institutions of learning. With approximately half the student body in Ann Arbor ousting ballots, the expression there is distinctly emphatic and decisive and indicates, among other things, that anti-prohibition feeling in the State is not confined to big olties or to a single locality...
...Harvard CRIMSON's poll of student sentiment on the Prohibition question in 14 leading universities, the Literary Digest's national poll now in full swing, and the recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...
...vote at Albany may be dismissed by many as too sectional to be significant. But it should not be overlooked that Republican sentiment in the Legislature is gradually swinging to the wet side, a phenomenon that had previously been considered more than improbable...
College prohibition polls have done what they set out to do, namely, get the college students' stand on prohibition. The results have added weight to the ever growing wet sentiment. This is less important than the fact that this expression came from a cross section of the country from whom those men who will act on either prohibition, or its successor, in the next generation, will be chosen...