Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personally don't feel the slightest doubt about my own election or the success of the entire Republican state and national ticket," declared Haigis. New England has been safe G.O.P. territory ever since 1934, he feels. The real battleground is in Pennsylvania and the states west as far as Illinois. New York he considers as virtually in the Landon column...
There seems to be at present, except in the minds of the Legionaries themselves, some doubt as to what constitutes a red-blooded American, but there are those who would consider that to call these clowns earthworms would be to dignify them far beyond their...
Dean Roscoe Pound's announcement that a clear majority of the Harvard Law School faculty favored the election of Governor Landon leaves the final political status of the school very much in doubt Backed by twelve other influential professors, dean Pound also favored the election of the complete republican national and state ticket. Despite the recent poll conducted by the Phillips Brooks House Committee in which President Roosevelt obtained a majority of 200 votes, this statement issued by such persons as Pound, Beale and Williamson, may swing many votes to the G. O. P. camp, to say nothing...
Indirectly casting doubt on the purity of Adams' motives, sophisticated Author Miller shows him as tenacious, wily, audacious, gives only a dim suggestion of the forces that inspired him in both his persistence and his cleverness. Born in 1722, Sam Adams was the son of a prosperous Boston brewer and merchant, studied at the Boston Latin School and Harvard. He was drawn into politics after quick failures in a counting house and in his father's business, did his first political writing anonymously at the age of 26. Caught up in the great religious revival...
...ability "to create an opportunity" and perhaps find, as a result, that a choice of occupations is possible. But for the majority, who do not know where their bread will come from after four festive years, and who are beginning to be bothered by the twin imps of doubt and perplexity, nothing could be more valuable...