Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commenting further, Mr. Airey denied that the British Government owns any share in Royal Dutch, but stated his belief that it owns 56% of the common stock of the rival Anglo-Persian Oil Company...
Angered afresh, Consul Dominguez replied instantly to Secretary MacDonald, also by special messenger: ". . . In my belief your excuse is puerile. My protest to the governor for the insult you made ... still remains until his excellency replies to me. ... In view of the seriousness and import because of my position as consul for Mexico the matter remains wholly to be settled between the head of the State and myself...
...outset of the Great War, amid the desoluation and gloom, one belief shone through the murkiness. It was that after such a world-involving calamity lasting peace must ensue. When the war ended, statesmen enthusiastically took up their task making certain that peace. But politics and petty jealousy overcame their ardor until there could be no absolute surety that such a catastrophe might not reoccur...
...Union began the practice of giving a dinner in honor of a nationally prominent graduate just after the World War, and it has been continued every year since then, with two exceptions. This year for the first time the Union is honoring a group of men in the belief that it is desirable for the undergraduates to meet the men who actually run the University...
...couldn't be wetter, yet I enforce the law in Cambridge. The same is true of Smith. He uses all the means at his disposal to enforce a law which should be enforced solely by the Federal authorities. Smith is greatly misunderstood in the South, because of the common belief of his attitude toward wetness. But his record as governor of New York should counteract this. It is an enviable record, in a state which was carried by Harding by 1,000,000 people and by Coolidge by half a million, that Smith, a Democrat should have been four times...