Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granted grace to prove their success or failure. No categorical decision can be rendered on "socialized medicine" versus "private competitive practice," as every high-school debater should know. The issue has too many facets, too large a setting. Doctors (and who should know better?) are sincere in their belief that collectivism will topple the high standards of the profession. The socially conscious, on the other hand, rebut with well-established statistics on the shameful inadequacy of medical facilities for the poor and indigent under present conditions. The very controversial nature of the problem argues for the sufferance--may the sponsorship...
...negotiations to continue, the President caused the 54 head U. S. diplomats accredited to a foreign country-except the ones through whom copies of the first Roosevelt-to-Hitler appeal had been relayed-to communicate at once to all the various chiefs of state Mr. Roosevelt's belief that an appeal by each of them to Herr Hitler might have cumulative effect...
George Van Horn Moseley is a military freak. While in service most army officers feel obliged to bottle up their opinions, but he has not hesitated to announce his belief that more money should be spent on syphilis prevention and less on national defense, that immigration of Austro-German refugees should be facilitated but they should be sterilized before being admitted to the U. S. Last week tart, leathery Major General Moseley, having passed 43 years in the service and two in command of the U. S. Third Army, retired, as all army men must do at 64. News editors...
...justify its being called a nation, he says, it is Jefferson's slogan: "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Worn smooth by innumerable stump speakers, preached by thousands who did not practice them, these are nevertheless revolutionary words; they involve a great moral principle, imply a belief in plain citizens, and a greater degree of economic justice than any nation has ever possessed. If everyone acted upon them "we should not be saying that 'everybody ought to be equally rich'; but each year fewer of us would care whether we were rich...
...Door of Life she has taken on a bigger theme, which she describes as "the relationship of a mother and young children and unborn children and just-born children," adding her belief that her novel is "the first attempt to portray the very first moments of this relationship in de-tail." Whether or not it is the first attempt, Enid Bagnold's admirers are likely to hope that it will be her last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical...