Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Without doubt the most honest, sincere and unbiased criticism of the New Deal heard in this country came from the lips of ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith speaking before the Liberty League in New York Saturday night. With no trace of personal bitterness or ravings, but with fairness and in plain terms, did the nation's leading "conservative Democrat" call the administration to task for its neglected party pledges and its wanderings from the paths of constitutionality. An especial tribute to Mr. Smith's sincerity of purpose is the fact that the Liberty League, at first evidently affected...
...League. How much opinion he swayed will only be known next fall. One may score the fact that his criticisms of the New Deal were general, that his solutions were highly theoretical and that the telling effects of his shots were somewhat dulled by their humorous setting, necessitated, no doubt, by the camaraderie of the occasion. All this is true, yet what he said is precisely what a large proportion of this country is thinking today. His challenge will have to be answered, and answered soon by a responsible spokesman for the administration. The New Deal can successfully withstand...
...filled by mediocrity. In the past the country has lived through it for a very simple reason,--that politics didn't matter anyway. But this, unfortunately, no longer is true, and no better illustration of the fact can be taken than the policies produced during this depression. No doubt can now remain, in spite of Henry Ford's continued insistence, that government policies are important, and that they must become increasingly so in the future...
...popular imagination of the world," cried Sir Philip from his padded seat, "there is no doubt that Zaharoff is regarded as a very sinister figure walking through the courts of Europe as agent for the sale of munitions. . . . Was he not your general agent...
...gain entrance to good or fashionable schools because of her notorious past." Mayhem? In New Jersey it was revealed that Mother Hewitt had received some $9,000 of Daughter Hewitt's own income to pay for her sterilization. What surgical procedure had been used remained publicly in doubt. Commonest techniques of female sterilization are to remove the ovaries or to tie off or cauterize the Fallopian tubes. Ordinarily an abdominal incision is involved, though cauterization may be accomplished dangerously by entrance through the uterus. Drs. Tillman & Boyd stoutly maintained that they had respectively recommended and performed sterilization because Daughter...