Word: belief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ripening into war, he was whistling for the wind. More eloquent than any poll of the public temper last week was the conclusion of Franklin Roosevelt that he could not prudently restate his ends. Up to last week he had accompanied them with assurances of his hope and belief that the U. S. could stay out of war. Sensitive to a nation sensitized by the fact of war, he conveyed one impression last week: that the U. S. will stay...
...forefinger reflectively behind his ear, where his scholarly spectacles bit him, scratched a big house-match for his long denicotinized cigar, and turned back to his typewriter. It was November 1,1925; he was finishing his third book, The Trail of a Tradition. In it he had recorded his belief that, historically and logically, U. S. isolation from foreign affairs is not only an "unbroken highway from yesterday to now" but the "safer, surer...
Goings-on in Italy backed up the belief that Il Duce would continue to play ball with both sides. While he was speaking in Bologna, it was announced in Rome that Italian garrisons were being withdrawn from the Dodecanese Islands off Greece, a gesture in the Allies' favor. A few days earlier Italy and Greece had both moved back from the Greco-Albanian frontier. Italy sent an Ambassador, Giuseppe Bastianini, to the Court of St. James's, where she has had none since June. Italy made no protest last week when the British stopped an Italian ship...
...southern. The export rate on U. S. vessels remained unchanged for both routes. The import rate on other neutral flag vessels was held at 3¾, but the export rate was upped from 3¾% to 5%. Reductions on British shipments, underwriters pointed out, reflected the belief of marine experts that the British convoy system had begun to function with more efficiency. But on shipments to and from Black Sea and Baltic Sea ports rates were quoted on application only...
...always stood. We believe that the activities of the soviet Union and the policies of the American Communist Party are entirely in accord with these principles. Although we appreciated Mr. Hicks' presence at Harvard during the past year, his present action can in no way alter our fundamental belief in the tenets of scientific socialism, the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. We will persist in our policy, based on these teachings, of exerting every effort to keep the United States out of the present imperialist...