Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey's job is to make an entirely circumstantial case sufficiently powerful to convince twelve Hunterdon County jurymen "beyond a reasonable doubt" of Bruno Hauptmann's guilt. In charge of this difficult task is David T. Wilentz, the State's Attorney General who took over the prosecution of the Hauptmann case as soon as it broke last autumn. Small, dark, shrewd 40-year-old Prosecutor Wilentz is not only a good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with...
...doubt and fear created by such a policy, both within and without an industry, fail to have its effect . . . in creating uncertainty and anxiety with a consequent retarding effect upon general recovery? What the power of government can do to one industry can likewise be visited upon any other form of business. No industry will be free from this devastating possibility...
Deploring the lack of debate on questions of fundamental policy he says, "It is well-nigh farcical when members of an administration can, month after month, use phrases so old, tawdry, so vague, ill-considered, and meaningless, that I doubt whether a village meeting in a Tory stronghold in England would tolerate such political fustian." After dwelling on the necessity of debate, Mr. Neilson discusses problems such as restoring confidence, planning for others, the economic fog, the protection of the foolish, and the fourteenth amendment...
...situation as it is. We can not disregard the fact that Japan has grown worthy of equality, that the entire structure of her foreign policy rests upon this assumption. And to her demand for equality, Japan has convincingly demonstrated the solidity of her stand. There is no doubt. She has refused to consider any plan for the limitation of armaments which predicates inequality, and already promises to toss over the Washington Treaty. By this time, it has further become very plain that the United States have nothing now to lose in granting Japan equality except her hostility, and the privilege...
That the book is a good life of this explorer no one will doubt, and it deserves a prominent place in the list of today's biographies. Perhaps, however, it could be accorded even greater rewards if the writing were of the higher standard of which the author seems capable...