Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, when Al Smith ran for President, bellowed at by Alabama's Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin, who mortally hated & feared the "Pope of Rome,"* Catholicism was brought forward as an issue in U. S. life. There can be no doubt that religious intolerance was a large factor in Al Smith's defeat. Since 1928, Pius XI's U. S. priesthood has got in some good licks on anti-Catholic sentiment. So skilfully have they stimulated U. S. reaction against that year's campaign of whispering and Heffling that the atmosphere has intangibly but perceptibly changed...
...Hanover puckmen earned their victory beyond any doubt, but the game was far from the pushover that Big Green rooters hoped for. Although a faster and much more experienced team, the Dartmouth six had to fight every minute of the way to keep the Hoddermen at bay. The Indians scored one in the first period and one in the second, but only the brilliant work of goalie Wes Goding, the smooth checking of the Dartmouth defense and the occasional intercession of Lady Luck enabled them to keep the hard-fighting Crimson forces...
MIAMI, Fia,-Court of Crimes Judge Wayne Allen today gave Rudy Vallee benefit of a "reasonable doubt," and dismissed charges of assault and battery brought against the crooner by a busboy in a Miami night club...
...years, 1935 and 1936, Picasso neither drew nor painted. There seems to be little doubt that, when he began to paint again it was in response to a political event -the war in Spain. In any case, the two works which have put him in the news since 1936 have been public, polemical jobs: his big, lacerating mural, Guernica, for the Spanish government pavilion at the Paris exposition of 193 7, and a series of hairy-nightmare etchings entitled Dreams and Lies of Franco. At the same time, Picasso's previous work has begun to emerge from the smoke...
...strong endorsement of Mr. Roosevelt's defense program was considered by many observers to leave little doubt that he is opposed to any proposition in which the United States would take the initiative in seeking to curb the present arms race by negotiation among the politically and economically opposed nations of the world...