Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through members' books to see that tariffs are being adhered to, he will rule the Conference with the same undisputed power that its captains have at sea. While the choice must be ratified at the Conference's meeting abroad next week, shippingmen felt there was little doubt that it will go through, less doubt that Wilhelm Cuno, onetime Chancellor of Germany and head of Hamburg-American Line, will grant Mr. Lederer leave of absence from his post as head of the passenger department...
Sirs: At last I have found something that I can contradict in the pages of TIME magazine, on very good authority. I refer specifically to p. 54 of the April 11 issue of TIME magazine. The notice is headed "Slip" and refers to what is, without a doubt, a remarkable accident record of 795 days [at Remington Typewriter's Syracuse factory ]. However what we take exception to is the statement made by F. E. Redmond, director of the educational bureau of the Associated Industries of N. Y. "It is the greatest individual factory safety record in the history...
...testified that he had shot and killed Kahahawai. His story ran only up to the moment when the brown-skinned native blurted: "We done it." After that the young submarine officer swore his mind went blank, he had no recollection of what he did. Prosecutor John C. Kelley openly doubted this version of the Kahahawai killing, indicated that he thought one of the two seamen had really fired the shot. But clever old Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel, gave his adversary no opportunity to enlarge upon this doubt by putting any of the other eye-witness defendants on the stand...
...Midwest. Some of his stablemates are Richard Shikat, Jim McMillen, Leon Pinetski, Gino Garibaldi, Sandor Szabo. De Vito was allowed to wrestle Champion Londos because he professed to have severed connection with the Bowser group. Promoter Curley, sure that Londos could beat him anyway, was inclined to doubt this. He said: "I think he [De Vito...
...Pointing to the efforts of the R. F. C. and anti-hoarding campaign, Secretary Mills added, ". . . While it seems almost cruel to urge patience ... yet I cannot help but feel we should give the forces which have been set in motion an opportunity to exert themselves before yielding to doubt as to whether we are on the right path." Pressmen applauded politely...