Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking over the reins of power the world over. Is there any sense in letting an agreement made when the war was still in the minds of every man and woman continue to create bitterness among peoples who have no real quarrel with each other? The jealousy and distrust with which defaulting nations are coming to regard the United States is most unfortunate. To the youth of America is seems unfair that one of the latent causes of future wars is nothing more than a lack of agreement between nations as to the settlement of the "fruits" of the last...
...Associated Press. In the old days they were always at one another's throats. Roy Howard, as president of that lusty upstart, the United Press, battled the powerful old AP at every turn. Publisher Hearst, with a news service of his own (International), was long viewed with grave distrust by his brother members...
...outdone with the Labor Board's support of the A. F. of L. system, resigned. Only strong pleas from General Johnson got him to withdraw his resignation. Labor man he is but he does not rub shoulders with the labor men whom open-shop industrialists most dislike and distrust. Nor is he a believer in the regimentation of industry. In Washington he has been an anomaly, for he is firmly pro-labor and equally firm in believing that labor fares best under a sound capitalistic system...
...used to looking to the Church for leadership. Consequently it has become identified with anti-clericalism and rationalization in the economic field, while the provinces stand for the Church and a peasant conservatism. The country, which has suffered considerably from the consequences of this rationalization, stands in some distrust of the city...
...young gentlemen! That expression about a political demon is fusty! And what else should a demon be if not ruthless? As to the propriety of liberals feeling distrust for the Senator because they have been disgusted by personal contact with him, that is something which it would take an ingenious liberal to explain. But prudent delvers in English must refuse to believe that character can be guarded by a bodyguard. A bodyguard may keep strangers from whanging a Senator in the eye, but a Senator's character needs far different and subtler protection...