Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objective number (2), there is no doubt that teachers, as a class, have no more influence in politics than J. P. Morgan; in fact, professors and that gentleman share the undubious honor of being scapegoats for morons and politicians. This spirit might in the future react against educational opportunities in America, and abolish the freedom of speech and investigation which is the foundation of the greatness of great universities. So that allying with such a power as the A F. of L. Makes for a strong safeguard against the present political defencelessness of teachers...
There is no doubt, despite higher-wage purchasing-power theories of Recovery, that a general increase in wage-rates at this time would only accentuate unemployment. In some industries, there is more possibility that such increases would goad the management into more efficient methods of production, but it is unlikely that where the depression has failed to do this, higher wages could. In other industries or firms where large profits still exist, laborers may be able to take a larger cut from gross income. But a general increase in wage-rates, to repeat, like a rise in the price...
...Betty Lawford is a bit cinematic as the defeated tart and Frances Maddux does well although her main talent for singing naughty ballads is quite dragged in by the heels. Jane Bancroft (one of the local debbies) does rather nicely as Ella, the serving girl--a democratizing experience, no doubt. John Root's stage so is a magnificent variation on the duplex apartment idea...
Under either King or Bennett there is little doubt that Canadians would fight in any popular Empire war and would not fight in one for which they felt distaste. Under Bennett or King no great reduction of Canadian tariffs is conceivable, nor any major change in the capitalist setup. For that, restive Canadians were looking to other parties...
...eminent specialists in epidemic diseases uprose to throw strong doubt upon both the Kolmer and the Brodie concoctions. Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute and Dr. James Payton Leake of the U. S. Public Health Service were especially perturbed by Dr. Kolmers preparation. They suspected that the weakened virus was still strong enough to cause infantile paralysis, and that Dr. Kolmer's explanation was not valid. Decided Dr. Rivers: "Time and circumstances make it imperative that Dr. Kolmer show his vaccine is absolutely safe...