Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual report of the Yale Medical School, Long stated that medical education will have to adapt itself to a growing public belief that adequate medical care be provided for the people regardless of economic circumstances...
...Government has made a grave mistake in prosecuting and imprisoning the eleven bosses of the Communist Party of this great nation. The Smith Act of 1940 was never meant to be so misused as to restrict and virtually outlaw the belief and teachings of any free-thinking American political group. This action by bigoted Americans may well establish a malignant precedent of outlawing (or of purging) all individuals or groups of individuals who show disfavor with or oppose the political leaders of this land...
...Judge Medina was careful to point out, the U.S. Government was prosecuting a criminal conspiracy against the Government, "not the political belief of any free-thinking Americans...
...Magic In Union. In the U.S. a belief was growing that 1) all of West Europe's economic ills would cease overnight if integration could be brought about; 2) what held up integration was the cussed stubbornness and shortsightedness of European politicians. The view did not fit the complicated realities of the case...
...preposterously wonderful world. "I am firm in my belief," wrote Millionaire John J. Raskob in the Ladies' Home Journal for August 1929, "that anyone not only can be rich, but ought to be rich." All anybody needed to do, said Raskob, was save $15 a month, put it into "good common stocks." At the end of 20 years it would have swelled to $80,000 and be yielding $400 a month in income. It was such an easy way to get rich that messenger boys stopped to read the stock-tickers in offices, chauffeurs drove with ears cocked...