Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week political wind was full of straws to indicate that the party might stop weasling, might devise a new, Wetter formula at the Chicago convention to match the shifting sentiment of the past twelve years. What the formula would be was anybody's guess but there was no doubt that the idea of a referendum plank has lately gained great strength among G. O. P. leaders. Seven straws...
...Lest there should be any doubt as to the attitude of the British Government. I would say that, in its view, any suggestion that obligations or agreements solemnly entered into by the two countries [Great Britain and the Irish Free State] could be repudiated or varied by either side as though it concerned that side alone, would cause the gravest concern, and, if seriously pursued, would undoubtedly revive bitterness and differences which it was hoped had been removed forever...
...success of the World Champions, Manager Charles Evard ("Gabby") Street had small doubt last week. When the Athletics played the Cardinals at Fort Myers, Fla., Connie Mack said to Street: "I hope we have the pleasure of meeting again next October." Said Gabby Street: "I'm looking forward to the pleasure and the profit, too." Privately he added: "Brooklyn has possibilities of being the most dangerous club in the league. Even the Reds and Phillies shape up as teams that can go places. In the end it will be stamina and steadiness that will win. That's where...
...among different species, but by last week it felt able to say that the birds hardest hit were canvasbacks, redheads and lesser scaups. Pintails, mallards, black ducks and geese were little below normal. Low water concentrated what birds there were in the good feeding grounds, causing many shooters to doubt that a shortage existed. Bureau agents found such concentrations in Florida's "panhandle" district, in the Crane Lake area of Illinois, along Missouri's Sheridan River. Southern California's flight, usually 40 miles wide, was ten miles last year. Little affected by Drought were areas on Puget...
That Columbia Broadcasting System was worth more than ten million last week nobody seemed to doubt. At first competitive bidders but finally fellow stock-holders with President Paley were Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., Lehman Corp., Field, Glore & Co. and Herbert Bayard Swope. Columbia's gross business in 1931 was $11,000,000. It owns five stations outright, has 91 affiliates, is the world's largest radio broadcasting system...