Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great factor in Roosevelt's dominance was his belief that "politics were a matter of education," rather than intrigue, Schlesinger concluded, explaining that Roosevelt thought all the people should take part in government...
...close examination will not bear out the belief that professors here must write a great number of books before they gain tenure, Pusey said. Men are often promoted on the basis of skill in teaching rather than amount of publication, he added...
...hypothesis that the Senate is not a continuing body is a reasonable one, nonetheless the belief that a majority of Senators on the floor has an indisputable hold on ultimate wisdom is not. Under the proposed change this second belief would take on the force of law. Thus, a liberal Senate minority--and there have been numbers of them--could be effectively silenced by what, at the moment, looks like a very liberal move. There is no guarantee that a simple majority of Senators on the floor of their chamber will always act wisely; there is, in fact...
Personal Attack. The rebels do not object to a balanced budget, but they believe that the President is doing permanent damage to the G.O.P. by putting too much stress on balance and too little on a dynamic program. Rankling them is the belief that just such inflexible conservatism swamped the Republicans in November, will certainly defeat the party in 1960 unless a new national G.O.P. image is forged...
...terribly misguided judgment." In a radio broadcast this week, the Rev. Daniel A. Poling, Dutch Reformed editor of the Christian Herald, reported that the leading spokesman for the Protestant missionary and educational groups in Formosa had told him: "Out here, the decision of the Cleveland conference is almost beyond belief ... To us it is betrayal-betrayal of their enslaved, tortured and often martyred fellow Christians in China...