Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mexico's Plutarco Calles and his National Revolutionary Party nominate a man for President, all the world knows that that man will be elected. There was no doubt that closemouthed, mustached General Lazaro Cardenas would be the next President when the Party formally nominated that Calles henchman in December. But in the dusty village of Nicolas Romero in the State of Mexico last week there was one man who refused to accept the inevitable...
...SHADOW BEFORE-William Rollins Jr.-Me Bride ($2.50). Few readers of this novel of U. S. industrial warfare will doubt where Author Rollins' sympathies are, but fewer will be able to accuse him of bedizening reality with overmuch Red paint. Author Rollins' picture of a U. S. mill town under a strike is no sermon but a text. Aimed obliquely from the "left." The Shadow Before should hit many a "right"-minded reader squarely in the middle. Until the strike started, the New England mill town of Fullerton seemed a fairly pleasant little place. To young Harry Baumann...
...responsibility of approving large tax returns. If the case involves a difference of opinion as to the meaning of the law, there has been provided a board of tax appeals, which is a quasi-judicial body. No longer does the administrative officer take the full responsibility when in doubt in civil cases. He prefers to let the board pass on them...
...fellow are treated alike. But the rule of justice which hitherto has permitted an administrative official to decide whether a case ought or ought not to be criminally prosecuted now has been weakened and the grand juries will be asked to decide. If the presumption of doubt is raised because what have been believed to be lawful deductions are taken by the taxpayer, then the time may come when income tax cases will fill up the federal court dockets just as the eighteenth amendment did in years gone by, but perhaps with an even lower percentage of convictions...
...hell they do mean to him, he can always point to his spotless moral life, and to the comparative poverty in which he lives as incontrovertible evidence of the rigid way in which he holds to these high aims. There can, in view of all this, be no doubt that the Colonel has followed the only course he could and that in refusing to join the investigating committee he made a gesture that is as tactful and gracious as it is moral, a gesture befitting an officer and a gentleman...