Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, May 12 Senator Hatch (D-NM) expressed belief today that President Truman would vote the pending labor dispute bill, as the Republican leadership won agreement for a final Senate vote tomorrow...
...interview with Mr. Stassen, Marshal Stalin expressed the belief that the United States and Russia can resolve their differences by cooperation, but the record of proceedings at the Moscow Conference makes it plain the Soviet leaders expect that the United States will eventually do most of the "cooperating." Both Secretary Marshall and Mr. Dulles report that the Four Power conclave split up over the failure of the two major participants to reach even the most limited agreement on key provisons of the German treaty...
...rebuttal to Professor Mather's arguments, Karl Sax, professor of Botany, pointed to the immense populations of Asia, particularly India and China, where an increased standard of living must point inevitably toward overpopulation far beyond any possible supply of resources. But Mather countered with his belief that these countries, if given encouragement from the rest of the world, would be able to solve this difficulty. The science of economic botany, he said, "is not bankrupt in Cambridge, in Chungking, or in Calcutta...
...Congress, Senator Robert Taft's almost equally tough labor proposition had been flattened into a pancake by his own committee. The Senate would be more cautious in its labor legislation; in fact, some members of the House voted as they did because they felt secure in that belief. But the House's impressive vote also strengthened Taft, who now might be able to restore much of his bill. But whatever happened-a compromise between the two houses, a possible presidential veto even of the compromise -the House action had thrown down a challenge to the industrial...
Cost of Enterprise. "If Christians are going to carry on a successful missionary enterprise in Asia and the Middle East, three things are absolutely essential. First, we must realize that the attraction of Communism in these countries is the belief that the U.S.S.R. guarantees the poor a subsistence living. And they are poor. So we must demonstrate that our free economy works-otherwise we are beaten...