Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department look into it. While Attorney General Tom Clark dawdled, a Jackson County grand jury opened the ballot boxes from 34 out of 255 precincts, found a "deliberate, calculated and premeditated plan" to miscount, steal and buy votes. Said the jury, which had already indicted 71: "It is our belief that Roger C. Slaughter was deprived of the nomination by a fraudulent miscount of votes and other types of fraud...
Life after Death. Although "there is no significant difference among more and less educated people so far as expressed belief in God is concerned, there is a major difference in their attitude to life after death: 66% of those with secondary education say they believe in life after death; 41% of those with elementary education say [they believe]." Explains Mass-Observation: ". . . The greater disbelief of the less educated means that many of them have nothing to put in the place of hell fire and harps...
Religion. "Thirty-six percent spontaneously define religion in terms of beliefs, faith and God; 32% spontaneously define it in terms of conduct; 14% spontaneously define it by criticising it." Mass-Observation reports "a slight tendency" for more educated people to define religion in terms of belief and the less educated in terms of behavior...
Last week Short Laig got his wish. The independent Foreman's Association of America, which had struck the Ford Motor Co. in the confident belief it could close it drum-tight, was getting the worst thrashing in its six-year career. And it was being given by Short Laig and his C.I.O. brethren. The C.I.O.-U.A.W. workers had walked right past the picket lines of the foremen, some of whom were elderly, prosperous-looking men in decorous blue serge suits. Even their signs had a decorous, plaintive ring: "What Has Happened to Human Relations...
...week's end, worried Keys called his strikers together to see what should be done. He confessed that he had been wrong-along with many industrialists-in his belief that a foreman's strike could shut down a mass-production plant at once, but he hoped another week might turn the trick. The strikers had little hope of winning their demand for exclusive bargaining rights for supervisory employees not now F.A.A. members. Nevertheless, they voted to stay out for fear, as one said: "If we go back without a contract they'll weed...