Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following day Governor Coolidge issued his proclamation calling out the militia and condemning the strikers. The friends of Mr. Coolidge declare that he took no action in advance of the strike because he was in touch with the Police Commissioner and was misled by the latter's optimistic belief that there would be no strike. They further assert that as soon as the Governor knew the actual conditions he immediately did all in his power. It is evident, however, that the credit of restoring order after the strike must be given to the Mayor of Boston...
...President is a conservative. The announcement that he will continue in Pesident Harding's policies without changes in the Cabinet means something but not everything. There is a general belief that Attorney General Daugherty will not continue long in office. On the other hand President Coolidge is said to have much in common with Secretary of Labor Davis and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon...
Even Esperanto can be tinged with politics in the strange propagandist twilight that has settled over Europe's chanceries. There really is ground for the belief that the Germans have been back of the agitation for Esperanto, in a desire to make an indirect attack on French and British influence through the French and English tongues. Also the Soviets recently attempted to compel the Russian Esperantists to use their language to further Bolshevist doctrines...
...throw his hat into the ring for the Presidential nomination in 1924. Political quidnunes surmised that his reasons were a firm belief that Harding now has the Republican nomination secure, and a fear of a third party after his Progressive experience...
...Chief Justice stated his belief that prohibition had come to stay, but characterized the effect of the law as " demoralizing" because it had added to the criminal classes "a group of well-to-do men and women, usually an element of strength in enforcing...