Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sudeten Pains. The third and best reason for the President's optimism is his belief that he can patch up his troublesome minority demands, particularly of the Sudetens, and thus spike Hitler's handiest excuse for an invasion. Father Andreas Hlinka, leader of a Slovak ecclesiastical party, has demanded autonomy for his racial group, but his party polled less votes than in previous years in the recent municipal elections. Other minority protests pull even less weight. But one Czechoslovakian minority problem the world will not forget in a hurry is that of the Sudetens...
...denounced Rabbi Wise's "Hitler plebiscite." In return, on Dr. Adler's home grounds in Philadelphia, Rabbi Wise made a bitter personal attack on Dr. Adler, charging he had known in advance of Hitler's rise to power, had advocated a "do-nothing" policy in the belief that Naziism would die of itself...
...brought back whiskey and the three point two. An older one. called the Tennessee Evolution Song, commemorates Tennessee's famous Scopes Trial: Then to Dayton came a man with his ideas so grand, And he said we sprang from monkeys long ago; But in teaching his belief Mr. Scopes found only grief, For they would not let their old religion...
...President Henry Noble MacCracken, Cornell's ex-President Livingston Farrand, Harvard's Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick. They proposed that U. S. colleges give sanctuary and scholarships to the students fleeing the universities of the Fascist countries "because of their belief in democracy." They would be selected by the International Student Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large universities would each take a dozen or more refugees, that by the fall at least a thousand would be imported to U. S. campuses. Said...
...solicitation of Harvard men will be made this year according to Bingham who is in thorough disaccord with the Olympic Committee. He also expressed the belief that he would neither hinder or aid the Olympic Committee this year...